From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
There's no need to take the write lock when creating sysfs links.
This patch fixes the following BUG:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:416
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.13.0-rc2-00110-g0b5477d9dabd #111
Backtrace:
[<0000000040217ac8>] show_stack+0x20/0x38
[<00000000406fbbb0>] dump_stack+0xb0/0x128
[<0000000040274090>] ___might_sleep+0x180/0x1b8
[<0000000040274144>] __might_sleep+0x7c/0xe8
[<0000000040373874>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x14c/0x1e0
[<0000000040419514>] __kernfs_new_node+0x84/0x1b8
[<000000004041b09c>] kernfs_new_node+0x3c/0x78
[<000000004041e040>] kernfs_create_link+0x40/0xd8
[<000000004041f320>] sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.0+0xb0/0x130
[<000000004041f3d4>] sysfs_create_link+0x34/0x58
[<000000004011b4a4>] pdc_stable_init+0x2c4/0x458
[<0000000040200250>] do_one_initcall+0x70/0x1d8
[<0000000040101644>] kernel_init_freeable+0x27c/0x390
[<000000004020be44>] kernel_init+0x24/0x1c0
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
index 7147aa5..b1ff46f 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c
@@ -333,11 +333,11 @@ pdcspath_hwpath_write(struct pdcspath_entry *entry, const char *buf, size_t coun
/* Update the symlink to the real device */
sysfs_remove_link(&entry->kobj, "device");
+ write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
+
ret = sysfs_create_link(&entry->kobj, &entry->dev->kobj, "device");
WARN_ON(ret);
- write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
-
printk(KERN_INFO PDCS_PREFIX ": changed \"%s\" path to \"%s\"\n",
entry->name, buf);
@@ -998,6 +998,7 @@ pdcs_register_pathentries(void)
/* kobject is now registered */
write_lock(&entry->rw_lock);
entry->ready = 2;
+ write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
/* Add a nice symlink to the real device */
if (entry->dev) {
@@ -1005,7 +1006,6 @@ pdcs_register_pathentries(void)
WARN_ON(err);
}
- write_unlock(&entry->rw_lock);
kobject_uevent(&entry->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
}
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
