Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:20

[Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 05:50:19PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 11:10:51AM +0800, Yuanhan Liu wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
> > 
> > commit 4b93dc9b1c684d0587fe44d36bbfdf45bd3bea9d
> > Author:     Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > AuthorDate: Thu Nov 28 14:54:43 2013 -0500
> > Commit:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > CommitDate: Fri Nov 29 18:16:08 2013 -0800
> > 
> >     sysfs, kernfs: prepare mount path for kernfs
> 
> Oops, can you please try the following patch?

Sorry for being a bit late, but, it does work!

	--yliu
> 
> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/mount.c b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
> index e7e3aa8..8d07527 100644
> --- a/fs/sysfs/mount.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/mount.c
> @@ -45,8 +45,10 @@ static struct dentry *sysfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
>  
>  static void sysfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
>  {
> +	void *ns = (void *)kernfs_super_ns(sb);
> +
>  	kernfs_kill_sb(sb);
> -	kobj_ns_drop(KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NET, (void *)kernfs_super_ns(sb));
> +	kobj_ns_drop(KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NET, ns);
>  }
>  
>  static struct file_system_type sysfs_fs_type = {