The driver may sleep with holding a spinlock. The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are: [FUNC] nvm_dev_dma_alloc(GFP_KERNEL) drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 754: nvm_dev_dma_alloc in pblk_line_submit_smeta_io drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1048: pblk_line_submit_smeta_io in pblk_line_init_bb drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1434: pblk_line_init_bb in pblk_line_replace_data drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 980: pblk_line_replace_data in pblk_recov_l2p drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 976: spin_lock in pblk_recov_l2p [FUNC] bio_map_kern(GFP_KERNEL) drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 762: bio_map_kern in pblk_line_submit_smeta_io drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1048: pblk_line_submit_smeta_io in pblk_line_init_bb drivers/lightnvm/pblk-core.c, 1434: pblk_line_init_bb in pblk_line_replace_data drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 980: pblk_line_replace_data in pblk_recov_l2p drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c, 976: spin_lock in pblk_recov_l2p To fix these bugs, the call to pblk_line_replace_data() is moved out of the spinlock protection. These bugs are found by my static analysis tool DSAC. Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: * Move the call to pblk_line_replace_data() out of the spinlock protection, instead of v1 that changes GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC in the calls to bio_map_kern() and nvm_dev_dma_alloc(). Thanks Javier for good advice. --- drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c index 3a5069183859..5fde414d78bb 100644 --- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c +++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-recovery.c @@ -955,12 +955,14 @@ struct pblk_line *pblk_recov_l2p(struct pblk *pblk) } } - spin_lock(&l_mg->free_lock); if (!open_lines) { + spin_lock(&l_mg->free_lock); WARN_ON_ONCE(!test_and_clear_bit(meta_line, &l_mg->meta_bitmap)); + spin_unlock(&l_mg->free_lock); pblk_line_replace_data(pblk); } else { + spin_lock(&l_mg->free_lock); /* Allocate next line for preparation */ l_mg->data_next = pblk_line_get(pblk); if (l_mg->data_next) { @@ -968,8 +970,8 @@ struct pblk_line *pblk_recov_l2p(struct pblk *pblk) l_mg->data_next->type = PBLK_LINETYPE_DATA; is_next = 1; } + spin_unlock(&l_mg->free_lock); } - spin_unlock(&l_mg->free_lock); if (is_next) pblk_line_erase(pblk, l_mg->data_next); -- 2.17.0