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However, when bufio tries to evict buffers, there\nis a chance to trigger scheduling in spin_lock_bh, the following warning\nis hit:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:2745\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 123, name: kworker/2:2\npreempt_count: 201, expected: 0\nRCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n4 locks held by kworker/2:2/123:\n #0: ffff88800a2d1548 ((wq_completion)dm_bufio_cache){....}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0xe46/0x1970\n #1: ffffc90000d97d20 ((work_completion)(&dm_bufio_replacement_work)){....}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x763/0x1970\n #2: ffffffff8555b528 (dm_bufio_clients_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: do_global_cleanup+0x1ce/0x710\n #3: ffff88801d5820b8 (&c->spinlock){....}-{2:2}, at: do_global_cleanup+0x2a5/0x710\nPreemption disabled at:\n[<0000000000000000>] 0x0\nCPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 123 Comm: kworker/2:2 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3-g90548c634bd0 #305 PREEMPT(voluntary)\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nWorkqueue: dm_bufio_cache do_global_cleanup\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70\n __might_resched+0x360/0x4e0\n do_global_cleanup+0x2f5/0x710\n process_one_work+0x7db/0x1970\n worker_thread+0x518/0xea0\n kthread+0x359/0x690\n ret_from_fork+0xf3/0x1b0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n </TASK>\n\nThat can be reproduced by:\n\n veritysetup format --data-block-size=4096 --hash-block-size=4096 /dev/vda /dev/vdb\n SIZE=$(blockdev --getsz /dev/vda)\n dmsetup create myverity -r --table \"0 $SIZE verity 1 /dev/vda /dev/vdb 4096 4096 <data_blocks> 1 sha256 <root_hash> <salt> 1 try_verify_in_tasklet\"\n mount /dev/dm-0 /mnt -o ro\n echo 102400 > /sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/max_cache_size_bytes\n [read files in /mnt]"}, {"lang": "es", "value": "En el kernel de Linux, se ha resuelto la siguiente vulnerabilidad: dm-bufio: correcci\u00f3n de sched en contexto at\u00f3mico Si \"try_verify_in_tasklet\" est\u00e1 configurado para dm-verity, DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP est\u00e1 habilitado para dm-bufio. 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