Re: [Bug #14999] possible circular locking dependency detected in rfkill at suspend

Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-15T20:45:58Z

On Monday 15 February 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a summary report
> > of recent regressions.
> >
> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > from 2.6.32. Please verify if it still should be listed and let the tracking team
> > know (either way).
> >
> >
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14999
> > Subject : possible circular locking dependency detected in rfkill at suspend
> > Submitter : Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
> > Date : 2010-01-06 21:52 (40 days old)
>
> I have a set of patches to clear up the sysfs lockdep false positives.
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/11/329
>
> It requires sprinking a bunch of sysfs_attr_init on the few dynamically
> allocated sysfs attributes, and I haven't found them all yet. Otherwise
> it seems to be working well.
>
> Greg should pick up those patches shortly and they should be appearing
> in linux-next and then ultimately in 2.6.34.

Great, I'm glad that these issues are being worked on.

Thanks for the information.

Rafael