linux-kernel - [bug report] [SCSI] mvumi: GFP

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:59:27 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	jyli@...vell.com
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [bug report] [SCSI] mvumi: GFP_KERNEL under spin lock

Hello Jianyun Li,

The patch f0c568a478f0: "[SCSI] mvumi: Add Marvell UMI driver" from 
May 11, 2011, leads to the following warning:
drivers/scsi/mvumi.c:121 mvumi_alloc_mem_resource()
	 error: scheduling with locks held: 'spin_lock:host_lock'

The problem is that we do a couple GPF_KERNEL allocations in
mvumi_alloc_mem_resource() and this static analysis program sees a path
where that function is called with spin_locks held.

mvumi_isr_handler() <- takes a spin lock
-> mvumi_handshake()
   -> mvumi_init_data()
      -> mvumi_alloc_mem_resource() <- GFP_KERNEL

The IRQ handler does print a warning before calling mvumi_handshake()
so it seems like this path doesn't get exercised very much.

regards,
dan carpenter

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