The patch titled uml: disable winch irq before freeing handler data has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uml-disable-winch-irq-before-freeing-handler-data.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: disable winch irq before freeing handler data From: Will Newton <will.newton@xxxxxxxxx> Disable the winch irq early to make sure we don't take an interrupt part way through the freeing of the handler data, resulting in a crash on shutdown: winch_interrupt : read failed, errno = 9 fd 13 is losing SIGWINCH support ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:48 list_del+0xc6/0x100() list_del corruption, next is LIST_POISON1 (00100100) 082578c8: [<081fd77f>] dump_stack+0x22/0x24 082578e0: [<0807a18a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x5a/0x80 08257908: [<0807a23e>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2e/0x30 08257920: [<08172196>] list_del+0xc6/0x100 08257940: [<08060244>] free_winch+0x14/0x80 08257958: [<080606fb>] winch_interrupt+0xdb/0xe0 08257978: [<080a65b5>] handle_IRQ_event+0x35/0xe0 08257998: [<080a8717>] handle_edge_irq+0xb7/0x170 082579bc: [<08059bc4>] do_IRQ+0x34/0x50 082579d4: [<08059e1b>] sigio_handler+0x5b/0x80 082579ec: [<0806a374>] sig_handler_common+0x44/0xb0 08257a68: [<0806a538>] sig_handler+0x38/0x50 08257a78: [<0806a77c>] handle_signal+0x5c/0xa0 08257a9c: [<0806be28>] hard_handler+0x18/0x20 08257aac: [<00c14400>] 0xc14400 Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/drivers/line.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/um/drivers/line.c~uml-disable-winch-irq-before-freeing-handler-data arch/um/drivers/line.c --- a/arch/um/drivers/line.c~uml-disable-winch-irq-before-freeing-handler-data +++ a/arch/um/drivers/line.c @@ -727,6 +727,9 @@ struct winch { static void free_winch(struct winch *winch, int free_irq_ok) { + if (free_irq_ok) + free_irq(WINCH_IRQ, winch); + list_del(&winch->list); if (winch->pid != -1) @@ -735,8 +738,6 @@ static void free_winch(struct winch *win os_close_file(winch->fd); if (winch->stack != 0) free_stack(winch->stack, 0); - if (free_irq_ok) - free_irq(WINCH_IRQ, winch); kfree(winch); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from will.newton@xxxxxxxxx are uml-disable-winch-irq-before-freeing-handler-data.patch arch-um-drivers-linec-safely-iterate-over-list-of-winch-handlers.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html