linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] [Resend] Possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs involving regmap_lock

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Message-ID: <6a754893-535a-c53e-fb65-2221408e06e3@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Sep 2018 11:18:21 +0800
From:   Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, rafael@...nel.org,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] [Resend] Possible sleep-in-atomic-context bugs involving
 regmap_lock_mutex()

Thanks for the reply :)

On 2018/9/11 1:41, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:34:20AM +0800, Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
>
>> My static tool DSAC reports many sleep-in-atomic-context bugs involving
>> regmap_lock_mutex(), so I wonder whether this function is possible to be
>> executed in atomic context.
> Have you actually analyzed the code paths that are really taken here?
> Static tools really don't cope very well with the pluggable locking in
> regmap.  If there are problems I'd suggest reporting them to the authors
> of the drivers using them, it's not really anything to do with regmap if
> they've messed up their locking.

Okay, I will send the reports to the developers for these drivers.


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai