Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 - sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2502

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 06:52:35PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> I've reverted your recent change to put audit messages directly into
> skbs "in order to eliminate the extra copy", on the basis that it
> blatantly wasn't having that effect anyway. Now we copy from the
> audit_buffer into an optimally-sized skb which netlink_trim() won't have
> to mangle. I've also removed the skb_get() immediately before
> netlink_send() which always made me unhappy.

Even if the audit code is never going to call netlink_unicast with
spin locks held, we simply cannot assume that for all current and
future users of netlink_unicast.

As a consequence we can't use gfp_any() in netlink_unicast.

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