2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Neil Brown commit 83db93f4de2d9ae441a491d1dc61c2204f0195de upstream. sysfs_notify_dirent is a simple atomic operation that can be used to alert user-space that new data can be read from a sysfs attribute. Unfortunately it cannot currently be called from non-process context because of its use of spin_lock which is sometimes taken with interrupts enabled. So change all lockers of sysfs_open_dirent_lock to disable interrupts, thus making sysfs_notify_dirent safe to be called from non-process context (as drivers/md does in md_safemode_timeout). sysfs_get_open_dirent is (documented as being) only called from process context, so it uses spin_lock_irq. Other places use spin_lock_irqsave. The usage for sysfs_notify_dirent in md_safemode_timeout was introduced in 2.6.28, so this patch is suitable for that and more recent kernels. Reported-by: Joel Andres Granados Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/file.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int sysfs_get_open_dirent(struct struct sysfs_open_dirent *od, *new_od = NULL; retry: - spin_lock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); + spin_lock_irq(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); if (!sd->s_attr.open && new_od) { sd->s_attr.open = new_od; @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static int sysfs_get_open_dirent(struct list_add_tail(&buffer->list, &od->buffers); } - spin_unlock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); + spin_unlock_irq(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); if (od) { kfree(new_od); @@ -315,8 +315,9 @@ static void sysfs_put_open_dirent(struct struct sysfs_buffer *buffer) { struct sysfs_open_dirent *od = sd->s_attr.open; + unsigned long flags; - spin_lock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags); list_del(&buffer->list); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&od->refcnt)) @@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ static void sysfs_put_open_dirent(struct else od = NULL; - spin_unlock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags); kfree(od); } @@ -456,8 +457,9 @@ static unsigned int sysfs_poll(struct fi void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd) { struct sysfs_open_dirent *od; + unsigned long flags; - spin_lock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags); od = sd->s_attr.open; if (od) { @@ -465,7 +467,7 @@ void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_di wake_up_interruptible(&od->poll); } - spin_unlock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_notify_dirent); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/