The notify routines may sleep. So, they can't be called in spinlock context. Also, they may want to call other media routines that might be spinning the spinlock, like creating a link. This fixes the following bug: [ 1839.510587] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1289 [ 1839.510881] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3479, name: modprobe [ 1839.511157] 4 locks held by modprobe/3479: [ 1839.511415] #0: (&dev->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff81ce8933>] __driver_attach+0xa3/0x160 [ 1839.512381] #1: (&dev->mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffff81ce8941>] __driver_attach+0xb1/0x160 [ 1839.512388] #2: (register_mutex#5){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa10596c7>] usb_audio_probe+0x257/0x1c90 [snd_usb_audio] [ 1839.512401] #3: (&(&mdev->lock)->rlock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa0e6051b>] media_device_register_entity+0x1cb/0x700 [media] [ 1839.512412] CPU: 2 PID: 3479 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.5.0-rc3+ #49 [ 1839.512415] Hardware name: /NUC5i7RYB, BIOS RYBDWi35.86A.0350.2015.0812.1722 08/12/2015 [ 1839.512417] 0000000000000000 ffff8803b3f6f288 ffffffff81933901 ffff8803c4bae000 [ 1839.512422] ffff8803c4bae5c8 ffff8803b3f6f2b0 ffffffff811c6af5 ffff8803c4bae000 [ 1839.512427] ffffffff8285d7f6 0000000000000509 ffff8803b3f6f2f0 ffffffff811c6ce5 [ 1839.512432] Call Trace: [ 1839.512436] [<ffffffff81933901>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc4 [ 1839.512440] [<ffffffff811c6af5>] ___might_sleep+0x245/0x3a0 [ 1839.512443] [<ffffffff811c6ce5>] __might_sleep+0x95/0x1a0 [ 1839.512446] [<ffffffff8155aade>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x20e/0x300 [ 1839.512451] [<ffffffffa0e66e3d>] ? media_add_link+0x4d/0x140 [media] [ 1839.512455] [<ffffffffa0e66e3d>] media_add_link+0x4d/0x140 [media] [ 1839.512459] [<ffffffffa0e69931>] media_create_pad_link+0xa1/0x600 [media] [ 1839.512463] [<ffffffffa0fe11b3>] au0828_media_graph_notify+0x173/0x360 [au0828] [ 1839.512467] [<ffffffffa0e68a6a>] ? media_gobj_create+0x1ba/0x480 [media] [ 1839.512471] [<ffffffffa0e606fb>] media_device_register_entity+0x3ab/0x700 [media] Tested with an HVR-950Q, under the following testcases: 1) load au0828 driver first, and then snd-usb-audio; 2) load snd-usb-audio driver first, and then au0828; 3) loading both drivers, and then connecting the device. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Please disconsider verison 1. It got amended with an experimental patch. drivers/media/media-device.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c index 6ba6e8f982fc..fc3c199e5500 100644 --- a/drivers/media/media-device.c +++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c @@ -587,14 +587,15 @@ int __must_check media_device_register_entity(struct media_device *mdev, media_gobj_create(mdev, MEDIA_GRAPH_PAD, &entity->pads[i].graph_obj); + spin_unlock(&mdev->lock); + /* invoke entity_notify callbacks */ list_for_each_entry_safe(notify, next, &mdev->entity_notify, list) { (notify)->notify(entity, notify->notify_data); } - spin_unlock(&mdev->lock); - mutex_lock(&mdev->graph_mutex); + if (mdev->entity_internal_idx_max >= mdev->pm_count_walk.ent_enum.idx_max) { struct media_entity_graph new = { .top = 0 }; -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html