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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	IDE-ML <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [ata_scsi_offline_dev] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:238
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 16:12:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171107001207.GH3252168@devbig577.frc2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFy+ok0wvjCmf4gPr+TSUHTs8i42APx=xmi1RnZN=0nFkg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 03:12:31PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But it does seem to be a new regression in 4.14, caused by commit
> 8a97712e5314 ("scsi: make 'state' device attribute pollable"), because
> that's what added the sysfs_notify() call to scsi_device_set_state(),
> which made that spinlock be a problem.

Yeah, pinged Hannes about it a couple of weeks ago.

> That commit came in through the SCSI merge this merge window, and it
> seems to still revert cleanly.
> 
> So I do suspect that by now we should just revert that commit. It's
> not clear why that state attribute should be pollable, and the new
> code is clearly very much buggy.

I think reverting is the right thing to do right now.  If necessary,
we can make kernfs_notify() safe to be called from atomic contexts.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-07  0:12 UTC|newest]

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2017-11-06 23:12                 ` [ata_scsi_offline_dev] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:238 Linus Torvalds
2017-11-07  0:12                   ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2017-11-07  3:34                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-11-07  6:55                   ` Hannes Reinecke

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