From 5748eb8f8e989a9da1ac7c96dc73d68cbdedf7df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:50:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] net: ppp: Don't call bpf_prog_create() in ppp_lock In ppp_ioctl(), bpf_prog_create() is called inside ppp_lock, which eventually calls vmalloc() and hits BUG_ON() in vmalloc.c. This patch works around the problem by moving the allocation outside the lock. The bug was revealed by the recent change in net/core/filter.c, as it allocates via vmalloc() instead of kmalloc() now. Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Seyfried Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed