Hi, i can repeatedly trigger the following bug when modprobing tcrypt to test the crypto algorithms with todays -git [ 122.967099] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:21 [ 122.967398] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4926, name: modprobe [ 122.967643] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 122.967858] Pid: 4926, comm: modprobe Tainted: G M 2.6.31-rc1-22297-g5298976 #24 [ 122.968176] Call Trace: [ 122.968411] [<c011dd93>] __might_sleep+0xf9/0x101 [ 122.968677] [<c0777aa0>] down_read+0x16/0x68 [ 122.968928] [<c048bf04>] crypto_alg_lookup+0x16/0x34 [ 122.969479] [<c048bf52>] crypto_larval_lookup+0x30/0xf9 [ 122.969722] [<c048c038>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0x1d/0x62 [ 122.969977] [<c048c13e>] crypto_alloc_base+0x1e/0x64 [ 122.970271] [<c04bf991>] reset_prng_context+0xab/0x13f [ 122.970523] [<c04e5cfc>] ? __spin_lock_init+0x27/0x51 [ 122.970777] [<c04bfce1>] cprng_init+0x2a/0x42 [ 122.971012] [<c048bb4c>] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0xfa/0x128 [ 122.971304] [<c048c153>] crypto_alloc_base+0x33/0x64 [ 122.971556] [<c04933c9>] alg_test_cprng+0x30/0x1f4 [ 122.971809] [<c0493329>] alg_test+0x12f/0x19f [ 122.972103] [<c0177f1f>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14d/0x481 [ 122.972356] [<d09219e2>] do_test+0xf9d/0x163f [tcrypt] [ 122.972613] [<d0920de6>] do_test+0x3a1/0x163f [tcrypt] [ 122.972855] [<d0926035>] tcrypt_mod_init+0x35/0x7c [tcrypt] [ 122.973488] [<c010113c>] _stext+0x54/0x12c [ 122.974575] [<d0926000>] ? tcrypt_mod_init+0x0/0x7c [tcrypt] [ 122.974836] [<c01398a3>] ? up_read+0x16/0x2b [ 122.975126] [<c0139fc4>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x40/0x4c [ 122.975376] [<c014ee8d>] sys_init_module+0xa9/0x1bf [ 122.975635] [<c010292b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x32 (gdb) l *(crypto_alg_lookup+0x16) 0xc048bf04 is in crypto_alg_lookup (crypto/api.c:201). 196 struct crypto_alg *crypto_alg_lookup(const char *name, u32 type, u32 mask) 197 { 198 struct crypto_alg *alg; 199 200 down_read(&crypto_alg_sem); 201 alg = __crypto_alg_lookup(name, type, mask); 202 up_read(&crypto_alg_sem); 203 204 return alg; 205 } Please let me know if you need further information or have patches to test. Regards, Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html