linux-kernel - Re: sched/core: WARNING in __might

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Date:	Mon, 01 Feb 2016 12:26:06 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Baozeng <sploving1@...il.com>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	syzkaller@...glegroups.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sched/core: WARNING in __might_sleep

On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 12:13 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Yeah, from the rfkill code, which you failed to CC.

Thanks Peter :)

> In any case, this is a fail in the rfkill code, which should be
> sorted
> with the below patch (but the rfkill people should double check), and
> ideally they'd use list_empty_careful() instead of the mutex, but I
> don't know their code well enough to say if that's safe or not.

Even list_empty() is fine in this case since we go and recheck it
anyway in the calling loop, while the mutex is held.

I have commit 6736fde9672f on its way to mainline.

johannes