On 2024-07-10, Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> wrote: > console_lock is the outermost subsystem lock for a lot of subsystems, > which means get/put_user must nest within. Which means it cannot be > acquired somewhere deeply nested in other locks, and most definitely > not while holding fs locks potentially needed to resolve faults. > > console_trylock is the best we can do here. But John pointed out on a > previous version that this is futile: > > "Using the console lock here at all is wrong. The console lock does not > prevent other CPUs from calling printk() and inserting lines in between. > > "There is no way to guarantee a contiguous ringbuffer block using > multiple printk() calls. > > "The console_lock usage should be removed." > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > Do that. > > Reported-by: [email protected] > References: > https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/[email protected]/ > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > Fixes: a8f354284304 ("bcachefs: bch2_print_string_as_lines()")
Reviewed-by: John Ogness <[email protected]>
