netfilter: x_tables: move sleeping allocation outside BH-disabled region
authorJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:45:51 +0000 (14:45 +0200)
committerPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:45:51 +0000 (14:45 +0200)
The jumpstack allocation needs to be moved out of the critical region.
Corrects this notice:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1705
[  428.295762] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 9111, name: iptables
[  428.295771] Pid: 9111, comm: iptables Not tainted 2.6.34-rc1 #2
[  428.295776] Call Trace:
[  428.295791]  [<c012138e>] __might_sleep+0xe5/0xed
[  428.295801]  [<c019e8ca>] __kmalloc+0x92/0xfc
[  428.295825]  [<f865b3bb>] ? xt_jumpstack_alloc+0x36/0xff [x_tables]

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
net/netfilter/x_tables.c

index 3ae32340d4df1a875a0c9694ec4300145a76c034..445de702b8b75a2dad66d96cf757a9f392ed7d80 100644 (file)
@@ -801,6 +801,12 @@ xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table,
        struct xt_table_info *private;
        int ret;
 
+       ret = xt_jumpstack_alloc(newinfo);
+       if (ret < 0) {
+               *error = ret;
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        /* Do the substitution. */
        local_bh_disable();
        private = table->private;
@@ -814,12 +820,6 @@ xt_replace_table(struct xt_table *table,
                return NULL;
        }
 
-       ret = xt_jumpstack_alloc(newinfo);
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               *error = ret;
-               return NULL;
-       }
-
        table->private = newinfo;
        newinfo->initial_entries = private->initial_entries;