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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:05:35 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B4033AF.9050101@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1ljgfvjcy.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

Hello,

On 01/03/2010 02:38 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> How about simply introducing an interface to mark sysfs nodes which
>> don't require active reference counting and using them on those nodes?
> 
> That might work.  However it does not seem to address the case of
> bond_sysfs, especially with someone doing rmmod bonding.

Ah... okay, now I remember this.  Yeah, I ripped off module ref
counting from sysfs ops.  I completely forgot about that and was
thinking we still had module ref counting on sysfs ops.  The logical
thing to do would be restoring module ref counting on sysfs ops which
won't go through active ref counting.  ie. Let the interface which
switch off active ref counting require module owner so that it uses
module ref counting instead of active ref counting.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-03  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-24 22:00 Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas Linus Torvalds
2009-12-25 10:27 ` -tip: origin tree boot crash Ingo Molnar
2009-12-25 19:49   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-26 20:19     ` Len Brown
2009-12-26 20:17   ` Len Brown
2009-12-27  4:20     ` Len Brown
2009-12-28  9:44       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-28 12:01         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-28 15:02           ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-28 16:15             ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-28 16:53             ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-28 20:17               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-12-30  6:14               ` Len Brown
2009-12-30  7:13                 ` Paul Rolland
2009-12-30  6:19               ` [PATCH] wmi: check find_guid() return value to prevent oops Len Brown
2009-12-30  6:21               ` [PATCH] dell-wmi: sys_init_module: 'dell_wmi'->init suspiciously returned 21, it should follow 0/-E convention Len Brown
2009-12-25 13:10 ` Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Blank screen for Intel KMS Miguel Calleja
2009-12-29  9:50   ` Miguel Calleja
2009-12-29 14:01     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-12-25 20:00 ` Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas Borislav Petkov
2009-12-25 21:50   ` Borislav Petkov
2009-12-26  6:00     ` Jesse Barnes
2009-12-26  8:02       ` Borislav Petkov
2009-12-26  9:36 ` EHCI resume sysfs duplicates (was: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...) Borislav Petkov
2009-12-26  9:45 ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected " Borislav Petkov
2009-12-28  0:40   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-30 21:10     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-30 21:34       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-30 22:03         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-31  8:40           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-31 19:04             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-01 13:58               ` [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-01 15:33                 ` Borislav Petkov
2010-01-01 18:56                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-01 22:43                   ` [PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability v2 Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-01 23:10                     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-01-02  5:59                       ` Greg KH
2010-01-02 15:40                       ` Borislav Petkov
2010-01-01 15:16               ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected (was: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...) Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-02  2:59                 ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected Tejun Heo
2010-01-02 21:37                   ` [PATCH] sysfs: Add lockdep annotations for the sysfs active reference Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  0:02                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-17 16:26                     ` Ming Lei
2010-01-17 17:18                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-17 18:03                         ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-01-02 21:49                   ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  0:32                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-03  2:06                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  5:01                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-01-03  5:38                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03  6:05                             ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-01-03  7:47                       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-03 10:57                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-03 11:14                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 19:16                             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 18:57                           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 19:43                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-01-04 21:12                               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 23:09                               ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-31  8:40           ` drm_vm.c:drm_mmap: possible circular locking dependency detected (was: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc2 - Merry Christmas ...) Eric W. Biederman

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