This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled genhd: fix leftover might_sleep() in blk_free_devt() to the 3.10-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: genhd-fix-leftover-might_sleep-in-blk_free_devt.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 46f341ffcfb5d8530f7d1e60f3be06cce6661b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:38:51 -0600 Subject: genhd: fix leftover might_sleep() in blk_free_devt() From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> commit 46f341ffcfb5d8530f7d1e60f3be06cce6661b62 upstream. Commit 2da78092 changed the locking from a mutex to a spinlock, so we now longer sleep in this context. But there was a leftover might_sleep() in there, which now triggers since we do the final free from an RCU callback. Get rid of it. Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -445,8 +445,6 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *par */ void blk_free_devt(dev_t devt) { - might_sleep(); - if (devt == MKDEV(0, 0)) return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axboe@xxxxxx are queue-3.10/genhd-fix-leftover-might_sleep-in-blk_free_devt.patch queue-3.10/block-fix-dev_t-minor-allocation-lifetime.patch queue-3.10/cfq-iosched-fix-wrong-children_weight-calculation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html