On Wednesday 27 October 2010 00:11:56 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:3101 > > in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4345, name: lease_tests > > 1 lock held by lease_tests/4345: > > #0: (file_lock_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81128be5>] lock_flocks+0x15/0x20 > > Pid: 4345, comm: lease_tests Not tainted 2.6.36-05858-gbd5e20b #1028 > > Call Trace: > > [<ffffffff8103141d>] __might_sleep+0x10d/0x140 > > [<ffffffff810e3ad3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1f3/0x230 > > [<ffffffff8112a4d2>] generic_setlease+0x112/0x2c0 > > [<ffffffff8112a6b5>] __vfs_setlease+0x35/0x40 > > [<ffffffff8112acfe>] fcntl_setlease+0xce/0x180 > > [<ffffffff810f7c2e>] sys_fcntl+0x2fe/0x630 > > [<ffffffff81961999>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f > > [<ffffffff81002658>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > > I'm testing a patch. > Thanks for the report! > @@ -1524,8 +1528,6 @@ int fcntl_setlease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, long arg) > if (error) > return error; > > - lock_flocks(); > - > error = __vfs_setlease(filp, arg, &flp); > if (error || arg == F_UNLCK) > goto out_unlock; > @@ -1541,7 +1543,6 @@ int fcntl_setlease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, long arg) > > error = __f_setown(filp, task_pid(current), PIDTYPE_PID, 0); > out_unlock: > - unlock_flocks(); > return error; > } If you don't hold lock_flocks throughout fcntl_setlease, the flp variable points to a flock that may get modified by another thread and you call time_out_leases() without holding lock_flocks, which it requires. The two alternatives I can see are to either use GFP_ATOMIC or to take the lock inside of generic_setlease and drop it outside. Neither of the two sounds particularly appealing. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html