On wtorek, 5 marca 2013 o 18:34:43 Mandeep Singh Baines wrote: > Fixes the following lockdep error: > > [ BUG: ktpacpi_nvramd/446 still has locks held! ] > > hotkey_kthread() calls set_freezable() after acquiring the > hotkey_kthread_mutex(). set_freezable() calls try_to_freeze(). > This could block suspend if we were to freeze at this point > and another task were to block on the mutex, potentially via > writing to one of the sysfs attrs. This race is unlikely but > can be easily fixed by moving the set_freezable() call. > > Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <[email protected]> > CC: Aaron Lu <[email protected]> > CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> > CC: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > CC: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> > CC: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tested-by: Maciej Rutecki <[email protected]>
Patch fixes the problem. Thanks! Regards -- Maciej Rutecki http://www.mrutecki.pl -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
