On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:56 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:58:47 +0000 > iceberg <strakh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Driver scsi_lib.c might sleep in atomic context, because it calls > > scsi_device_put under spin_lock_irqsave. > > drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:356: > > spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); > > scsi_device_put(sdev); > > Path to might_sleep macro from scsi_device_put: > > 1. scsi_device_put calls put_device at ./drivers/scsi/scsi.c:1111 > > 2. put_device calls kobject_put at ./drivers/base/core.c:1038 > > 3. kobject_put calls kref_put at ./lib/kobject.c > > 4. kref_put may call callback function kobject_release at ./lib/kref.c if > > refcount becomes zero, which might_sleep because it calls user event. Details: > > 4.1 kobject_cleanup calls kobject_uevent at ./lib/kobject.c:555 > > 4.2 kobject_uevent calls kobject_uevent_env at ./lib/kobject_uevent.c:282 > > 4.3 kobject_uevent_env calls call_usermodehelper_exec at > > ./include/linux/kmod.h:83 > > 4.4 call_usermodehelper_exec calls wait_for_completion at > > ./kernel/kmod.c:481 > > 4.5 wait_for_completion calls wait_for_common at ./kernel/sched.c:5710 > > 4.5 wait_for_common calls might_sleep at ./kernels/sched.c:5692 > > > > Found by Linux Driver Verification project. > > > > Delete wrong sleeping function calls. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Strakh <strakh@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > diff --git a/./a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/./b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c > > index f3c4089..a8f8e2f 100644 > > --- a/./a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c > > +++ b/./b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c > > @@ -353,9 +353,9 @@ static void scsi_single_lun_run(struct scsi_device > > *current_sdev) > > > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags); > > blk_run_queue(sdev->request_queue); > > - spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); > > > > - scsi_device_put(sdev); > > + scsi_device_put(sdev); > > + spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags); > > } > > out: > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags); > > > > Well this is strange. afacit all the code to which you refer is > ancient, so why did this bug just pop up now? No idea. I think the root cause of this is in the kobject code: we explicitly require the ability to call last put from interrupt context (and that includes holding locks). I'll talks to Greg and Kai about this (they're both here at plumbers). I think the fix is to indirect the kobject uevent stuff via a usermode helper so we don't get this problem. James --- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
