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From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
To: Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: BUG: might_sleep in /proc/swaps code
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:24:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040428232457.GB1483@sun.com> (raw)

Testing some othe rwork, totally unrelated, we added a might_sleep() to
mntput().  It turned up this:

Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
include/linux/mount.h:82
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
Call Trace:
 [<c012378f>] __might_sleep+0xab/0xcb
 [<c018787c>] d_path+0x171/0x272
 [<c018ff50>] seq_path+0x4b/0xf4
 [<c0165b12>] swap_show+0x3d/0x110
 [<c018f87d>] seq_read+0xa8/0x31b
 [<c015aa83>] do_brk+0x14f/0x21c
 [<c0168fae>] vfs_read+0xaf/0x119
 [<c0169224>] sys_read+0x3f/0x5d
 [<c010b4e1>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71


* /proc/swaps uses seq_file code, calling seq_path() with swaplock held
* seq_path() calls d_path()
* d_path() calls mntput() which might_sleep()

Is this worth trying to solve?  

-- 
Tim Hockin
Sun Microsystems, Linux Software Engineering
thockin@sun.com
All opinions are my own, not Sun's

             reply	other threads:[~2004-04-29  0:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-28 23:24 Tim Hockin [this message]
2004-04-29  0:53 ` BUG: might_sleep in /proc/swaps code viro
2004-04-29  2:03   ` viro
2004-04-29 19:22     ` Tim Hockin

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