3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Marcin Jurkowski <marci...@gmail.com> commit 9d1817cab2f030f6af360e961cc69bb1da8ad765 upstream. On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:45:10AM +0100, Sven Geggus wrote: > This is the bad commit I found doing git bisect: > 04f482faf50535229a5a5c8d629cf963899f857c is the first bad commit > commit 04f482faf50535229a5a5c8d629cf963899f857c > Author: Patrick McHardy <ka...@trash.net> > Date: Mon Mar 28 08:39:36 2011 +0000 Good job. I was too lazy to bisect for bad commit;) Reading the code I found problematic kthread_should_stop call from netlink connector which causes the oops. After applying a patch, I've been testing owfs+w1 setup for nearly two days and it seems to work very reliable (no hangs, no memleaks etc). More detailed description and possible fix is given below: Function w1_search can be called from either kthread or netlink callback. While the former works fine, the latter causes oops due to kthread_should_stop invocation. This patch adds a check if w1_search is serving netlink command, skipping kthread_should_stop invocation if so. Signed-off-by: Marcin Jurkowski <marci...@gmail.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <z...@ioremap.net> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwbo...@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sven Geggus <li...@fuchsschwanzdomain.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/w1/w1.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/w1/w1.c +++ b/drivers/w1/w1.c @@ -918,7 +918,8 @@ void w1_search(struct w1_master *dev, u8 tmp64 = (triplet_ret >> 2); rn |= (tmp64 << i); - if (kthread_should_stop()) { + /* ensure we're called from kthread and not by netlink callback */ + if (!dev->priv && kthread_should_stop()) { dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "Abort w1_search\n"); return; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/