> On 6 Oct 2017, at 11.20, Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10/05/2017 11:35 AM, Hans Holmberg wrote:
>> From: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Lockdep complains about being in atomic context while freeing line
>> metadata - and rightly so as we take a spinlock and end up calling
>> vfree that might sleep(in pblk_mfree).
>>
>> There is no need for holding the line manager free_lock while
>> freeing line metadata, so remove the lock.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I guess this also deserves stable tag. The bug was introduced in 4.13 by
> commit 588726d3ec68 ("lightnvm: pblk: fail gracefully on irrec. error").
>
Good point. We'll add it when picking it up.
Thanks,
Javier
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