On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:36:25PM +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > When inserting a wrong value to /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state file, > following messages are shown. And device_hotplug_lock is never released. > > ================================================ > [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] > 3.12.0-rc4-debug+ #3 Tainted: G W > ------------------------------------------------ > bash/6442 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! > 1 lock held by bash/6442: > #0: (device_hotplug_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8146cbb5>] lock_device_hotplug_sysfs+0x15/0x50 > > This issue was introdued by commit fa2be40 (drivers: base: use standard > device online/offline for state change). > > This patch releases device_hotplug_lcok when store_mem_state returns EINVAL. > > Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> > CC: Seth Jennings <sjenning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Is this needed in 3.12-final, and possibly older kernel releases as well (3.10, 3.11, etc.)? Or is it ok for 3.13? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>