linux-kernel - Re: Oops/Warning report for the week of March 28th 2008

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:01:11 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: Oops/Warning report for the week of March 28th 2008


> Hmm. Definitely not from the kernel mailing list. I'm intrigued, where did 
> that oops #5814 come from (picked a recent one at random)?

Can't tell you this, but

> The thing is recent, and oopses on "mutex_lock(dev->mutex)" in 
> input_release_device. In particular, the path *seems* to be this one:
> 
>   evdev_release ->
>     evdev_ungrab ->
>       input_release_device ->
>         mutex_lock ->
>           mutex_lock_nested ->
>             __mutex_lock_common ->
>               list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &lock->wait_list)

That I've seen before, analysed a bit and posted:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/4281

johannes

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