Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in console_lock

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On 2023/9/18 23:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 09:35:23PM +0800, yiyang (D) wrote:
In recent years, this problem has been reported in syzkaller all the time.

Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dbac96d8e73b61aa559c

Historically, the developers have tried to fix this problem by use mutex
instead spinlock, but it didn't solve the problem..

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220826193545.20363-1-pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx/

Other developers have recently reported this problem, but no one has
continued to try to fix it.

Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230420082153.6711-1-daniel.starke@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Anyway, do we have any ideas for solving this problem?

Nope!  Why do you think this is something that even needs to be
addressed?
.

Kernel only perform cannot sleep operations in atomic context, as otherwise a system hang or crash may occur.

So there's a risk to this problem.




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