devtmpfs has a rw_lock dirlock which serializes delete_path and create_path. This code was obviously never tested with the usual set of debugging facilities enabled. In the dirlock held sections the code calls: - vfs functions which take mutexes - kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL) In both code pathes the might sleep warning triggers and spams dmesg. Convert the rw_lock to a mutex. There is no reason why this needs to be a rwlock. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static int dev_mount = 1; static int dev_mount; #endif -static rwlock_t dirlock; +static DEFINE_MUTEX(dirlock); static int __init mount_param(char *str) { @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static int create_path(const char *nodep { int err; - read_lock(&dirlock); + mutex_lock(&dirlock); err = dev_mkdir(nodepath, 0755); if (err == -ENOENT) { char *path; @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static int create_path(const char *nodep } kfree(path); } - read_unlock(&dirlock); + mutex_unlock(&dirlock); return err; } @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static int delete_path(const char *nodep if (!path) return -ENOMEM; - write_lock(&dirlock); + mutex_lock(&dirlock); for (;;) { char *base; @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static int delete_path(const char *nodep if (err) break; } - write_unlock(&dirlock); + mutex_unlock(&dirlock); kfree(path); return err; @@ -352,8 +352,6 @@ int __init devtmpfs_init(void) int err; struct vfsmount *mnt; - rwlock_init(&dirlock); - err = register_filesystem(&dev_fs_type); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "devtmpfs: unable to register devtmpfs " -- 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/