Hi, I plugged a USB disk in, then did "dd if=iso of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb...". I got the following in dmesg: [39752.343246] INFO: task systemd-udevd:160 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [39752.343249] Not tainted 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 [39752.343250] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [39752.343251] systemd-udevd D 0000000000000000 0 160 1 0x00000000 [39752.343254] ffff8802132dbb00 0000000000000086 ffff8802132dbad0 ffff8802136ace80 [39752.343256] 00000000000146c0 ffff8802132dbfd8 00000000000146c0 ffff8802136ace80 [39752.343257] 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff8802136ace80 ffffffff810a0d40 [39752.343259] Call Trace: [39752.343265] [<ffffffff810a0d40>] ? wake_up_process+0x50/0x50 [39752.343267] [<ffffffff8150c2dd>] ? wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x20 [39752.343270] [<ffffffff810875b9>] ? flush_work+0xe9/0x170 [39752.343271] [<ffffffff810853c0>] ? work_busy+0x80/0x80 [39752.343273] [<ffffffff8150b729>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [39752.343275] [<ffffffff8150bba6>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x16/0x20 [39752.343277] [<ffffffff8150d5f5>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x175/0x230 [39752.343288] [<ffffffff8150d6c7>] mutex_lock+0x17/0x30 [39752.343290] [<ffffffff811f672b>] __blkdev_get+0x7b/0x4d0 [39752.343291] [<ffffffff811f6f70>] ? blkdev_get_by_dev+0x50/0x50 [39752.343293] [<ffffffff811f6bd0>] blkdev_get+0x50/0x3a0 [39752.343294] [<ffffffff811f6f70>] ? blkdev_get_by_dev+0x50/0x50 [39752.343295] [<ffffffff811f6fcb>] blkdev_open+0x5b/0x80 [39752.343297] [<ffffffff811b85a7>] do_dentry_open+0x1c7/0x2d0 [39752.343298] [<ffffffff811b8a51>] finish_open+0x31/0x50 [39752.343301] [<ffffffff811c9342>] do_last.isra.36+0x612/0xe30 [39752.343303] [<ffffffff811c9c27>] path_openat+0xc7/0x6e0 [39752.343305] [<ffffffff81184919>] ? free_pages_and_swap_cache+0xb9/0xe0 [39752.343307] [<ffffffff8116dd85>] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x45/0x50 [39752.343309] [<ffffffff811cb44d>] do_filp_open+0x4d/0xc0 [39752.343311] [<ffffffff811d8317>] ? __alloc_fd+0xa7/0x130 [39752.343313] [<ffffffff811b9cfe>] do_sys_open+0x14e/0x250 [39752.343314] [<ffffffff811b9e1e>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [39752.343317] [<ffffffff81517769>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Running with strace, I see dd opening the device: open("/dev/disk/by-id/usb-General_UDisk_1403221019040573621805-0:0", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3 and then udevd get a message that the device has changed, and tries to open it (I think it does this to apply ownership and permissions to the device): open("/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-5/3-5:1.0/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sdc/uevent", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 12 open("/dev/sdc", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOFOLLOW|O_CLOEXEC This open then hangs until the dd process finishes. This is reproducible every time (3.14 and 3.16). I also saw the following: [40384.517801] usb 3-5: USB disconnect, device number 4 [40455.060211] sdc: detected capacity change from 1012924416 to 0 [40455.060231] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [40455.060235] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 160 at fs/sysfs/group.c:216 sysfs_remove_group+0x99/0xa0() [40455.060236] sysfs group ffffffff81897ba0 not found for kobject 'target5:0:0' [40455.060237] Modules linked in: usb_storage fuse snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic coretemp x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel mousedev ghash_clmulni_intel eeepc_wmi asus_wmi aesni_intel sparse_keymap led_class aes_x86_64 rfkill hwmon lrw gf128mul glue_helper snd_hda_intel iTCO_wdt ablk_helper iTCO_vendor_support cryptd evdev snd_hda_codec r8169 mac_hid i915 snd_hwdep microcode mii serio_raw pcspkr snd_pcm i2c_i801 thermal fan drm_kms_helper snd_timer drm tpm_infineon snd tpm_tis intel_gtt battery i2c_algo_bit soundcore i2c_core tpm video wmi shpchp mei_me button lpc_ich mei processor ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 hid_generic usbhid hid sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_common atkbd libps2 ahci libahci ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd libata scsi_mod [40455.060276] usbcore usb_common i8042 serio [40455.060279] CPU: 3 PID: 160 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 3.14.4-1-ARCH #1 [40455.060280] Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H81M-K, BIOS 1002 08/12/2014 [40455.060281] 0000000000000000 000000002eac7960 ffff8802132dbb80 ffffffff8150996e [40455.060283] ffff8802132dbbc8 ffff8802132dbbb8 ffffffff8106ab2d 0000000000000000 [40455.060284] ffffffff81897ba0 ffff8800d2621c38 ffff880212ea4000 ffff880212ea4100 [40455.060286] Call Trace: [40455.060289] [<ffffffff8150996e>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x6f [40455.060291] [<ffffffff8106ab2d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0 [40455.060293] [<ffffffff8106abac>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5c/0x80 [40455.060294] [<ffffffff812346e8>] ? kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x48/0x60 [40455.060296] [<ffffffff81232fb9>] sysfs_remove_group+0x99/0xa0 [40455.060299] [<ffffffff8139e783>] dpm_sysfs_remove+0x43/0x50 [40455.060301] [<ffffffff81393c35>] device_del+0x45/0x1d0 [40455.060306] [<ffffffffa00c0067>] scsi_target_reap_usercontext+0x27/0x40 [scsi_mod] [40455.060318] [<ffffffff81087297>] execute_in_process_context+0x67/0x70 [40455.060322] [<ffffffffa00c13a4>] scsi_target_reap+0xc4/0xe0 [scsi_mod] [40455.060326] [<ffffffffa00c33b4>] scsi_device_dev_release_usercontext+0x174/0x1a0 [scsi_mod] [40455.060327] [<ffffffff81087297>] execute_in_process_context+0x67/0x70 [40455.060331] [<ffffffffa00c323c>] scsi_device_dev_release+0x1c/0x20 [scsi_mod] [40455.060332] [<ffffffff813930c2>] device_release+0x32/0xa0 [40455.060335] [<ffffffff8129af4a>] kobject_release+0x7a/0x1c0 [40455.060337] [<ffffffff8129b0bd>] kobject_put+0x2d/0x60 [40455.060338] [<ffffffff81393507>] put_device+0x17/0x20 [40455.060341] [<ffffffffa00b6a1a>] scsi_device_put+0x3a/0x50 [scsi_mod] [40455.060344] [<ffffffffa01f5810>] scsi_disk_put+0x30/0x50 [sd_mod] [40455.060347] [<ffffffffa01f6821>] sd_release+0x31/0x70 [sd_mod] [40455.060348] [<ffffffff811f6672>] __blkdev_put+0x182/0x1c0 [40455.060350] [<ffffffff811f703c>] blkdev_put+0x4c/0x150 [40455.060351] [<ffffffff811f71f5>] blkdev_close+0x25/0x30 [40455.060353] [<ffffffff811bc50c>] __fput+0x9c/0x240 [40455.060354] [<ffffffff811bc6fe>] ____fput+0xe/0x10 [40455.060356] [<ffffffff8108c24f>] task_work_run+0xaf/0xe0 [40455.060358] [<ffffffff81016c55>] do_notify_resume+0x95/0xa0 [40455.060360] [<ffffffff815179a0>] int_signal+0x12/0x17 [40455.060361] ---[ end trace e6961ef54dbee30c ]--- Can anyone shed light on the cause of these messages? They don't really cause a problem, other than udevd being blocked for the duration of the writing. Thanks -- Ross Lagerwall -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html