linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 265/357] genhd: fix leftover might_sleep() in blk_free

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Date:	Fri,  3 Oct 2014 14:30:51 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@...il.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 265/357] genhd: fix leftover might_sleep() in blk_free_devt()

3.16-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>

commit 46f341ffcfb5d8530f7d1e60f3be06cce6661b62 upstream.

Commit 2da78092 changed the locking from a mutex to a spinlock,
so we now longer sleep in this context. But there was a leftover
might_sleep() in there, which now triggers since we do the final
free from an RCU callback. Get rid of it.

Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 block/genhd.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -445,8 +445,6 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *par
  */
 void blk_free_devt(dev_t devt)
 {
-	might_sleep();
-
 	if (devt == MKDEV(0, 0))
 		return;
 


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