Hi, I'm sending three "sleeping function called from invalid context" bug fixes that I had on my TODO for a while. All of them are ceph_buffer_put related, and all the fixes follow the same pattern: delay the operation until the ci->i_ceph_lock is released. The first patch simply allows ceph_buffer_put to receive a NULL buffer so that the NULL check doesn't need to be performed in all the other patches. IOW, it's not really required, just convenient. (Note: maybe these patches should all be tagged for stable.) Luis Henriques (4): libceph: allow ceph_buffer_put() to receive a NULL ceph_buffer ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in __ceph_setxattr() ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in __ceph_build_xattrs_blob() ceph: fix buffer free while holding i_ceph_lock in fill_inode() fs/ceph/caps.c | 5 ++++- fs/ceph/inode.c | 7 ++++--- fs/ceph/snap.c | 4 +++- fs/ceph/super.h | 2 +- fs/ceph/xattr.c | 19 ++++++++++++++----- include/linux/ceph/buffer.h | 3 ++- 6 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)