This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fakelb: fix schedule while atomic to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fakelb-fix-schedule-while-atomic.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bdca1fd9a6df745857e23c6056494b7fe062b4e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Aring <aar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:24:57 +0200 Subject: fakelb: fix schedule while atomic From: Alexander Aring <aar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bdca1fd9a6df745857e23c6056494b7fe062b4e6 upstream. This patch changes the spinlock to mutex for the available fakelb phy list. When holding the spinlock the ieee802154_unregister_hw is called which holding the rtnl_mutex, in that case we get a "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" error. We simple change the spinlock to mutex which allows to hold the rtnl lock there. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ static int numlbs = 2; static LIST_HEAD(fakelb_phys); -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(fakelb_phys_lock); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(fakelb_phys_lock); static LIST_HEAD(fakelb_ifup_phys); static DEFINE_RWLOCK(fakelb_ifup_phys_lock); @@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ static int fakelb_add_one(struct device if (err) goto err_reg; - spin_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock); + mutex_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock); list_add_tail(&phy->list, &fakelb_phys); - spin_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock); + mutex_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock); return 0; @@ -214,10 +214,10 @@ static int fakelb_probe(struct platform_ return 0; err_slave: - spin_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock); + mutex_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock); list_for_each_entry_safe(phy, tmp, &fakelb_phys, list) fakelb_del(phy); - spin_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock); + mutex_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock); return err; } @@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ static int fakelb_remove(struct platform { struct fakelb_phy *phy, *tmp; - spin_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock); + mutex_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock); list_for_each_entry_safe(phy, tmp, &fakelb_phys, list) fakelb_del(phy); - spin_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock); + mutex_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/fakelb-fix-schedule-while-atomic.patch