The incoming skb needs to be reallocated in case the headroom is not sufficient to adjust the ethernet header. This allocation needs to be atomic otherwise it results in this splat
[<600601bb>] ___might_sleep+0x185/0x1a3 [<603f6314>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x0/0x27 [<60069bb0>] ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x95/0xd1 [<600602b0>] __might_sleep+0xd7/0xe2 [<60065598>] ? enqueue_task_fair+0x112/0x209 [<600eea13>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x5d/0x124 [<600ee9b6>] ? __kmalloc_track_caller+0x0/0x124 [<602696d5>] __kmalloc_reserve.isra.34+0x30/0x7e [<603f629b>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x0/0x3d [<6026b744>] pskb_expand_head+0xbf/0x310 [<6025ca6a>] rmnet_rx_handler+0x7e/0x16b [<6025c9ec>] ? rmnet_rx_handler+0x0/0x16b [<6027ad0c>] __netif_receive_skb_core+0x301/0x96f [<60033c17>] ? set_signals+0x0/0x40 [<6027bbcb>] __netif_receive_skb+0x24/0x8e Fixes: 74692caf1b0b ("net: qualcomm: rmnet: Process packets over ethernet") Signed-off-by: Sean Tranchetti <stran...@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subas...@codeaurora.org> --- drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c index 1f98d65..11167ab 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static void rmnet_set_skb_proto(struct sk_buff *skb) struct sk_buff *skbn; if (skb->dev->type == ARPHRD_ETHER) { - if (pskb_expand_head(skb, ETH_HLEN, 0, GFP_KERNEL)) { + if (pskb_expand_head(skb, ETH_HLEN, 0, GFP_ATOMIC)) { kfree_skb(skb); return; } -- 1.9.1