On 03/26/2014 01:01 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 3/17/14, 9:05 AM, David Sterba wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 08:12:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest 
>>>>> -next kernel I've stumbled on the following:
>>>>> 
>>>>> [  788.458756]        CPU0                    CPU1 [  788.459188] ----    
>>>>>                 ---- [  788.459625] lock(&found->groups_sem); [  
>>>>> 788.460041] local_irq_disable(); [  788.460041] 
>>>>> lock(&delayed_node->mutex); [  788.460041] lock(&found->groups_sem); [  
>>>>> 788.460041]   <Interrupt> [ 788.460041]     lock(&delayed_node->mutex); [ 
>>>>>  788.460041] [ 788.460041]  *** DEADLOCK *** [  788.460041] [  
>>>>> 788.460041] 2 locks held by kswapd3/4199:
>>> 
>>> I've once (3.14-rc5) seen the same warning also caused by 
>>> xfstests/generic/224
> I think this is from my sysfs patches. We call kobject_add while holding the 
> group_sem. kobject_add ultimately allocates with GFP_KERNEL, so it can enter 
> reclaim. This particular case isn't dangerous, but it could hit while 
> hot-adding a device. The fix should be pretty simple.

Is that fix available anywhere? I'm still seeing the issue in -next.


Thanks,
Sasha
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