| Message ID | 1454508197-32767-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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| State | New |
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diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c index b5e98de489dc..0c79f95383c0 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c +++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c @@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ static void sysrq_handle_crash(int key) { char *killer = NULL; + /* we need to release the RCU read lock here, + * otherwise we get an annoying + * 'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context' + * complaint from the kernel before the panic. + */ + rcu_read_unlock(); panic_on_oops = 1; /* force panic */ wmb(); *killer = 1;
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled sysrq: Fix warning in sysrq generated crash. to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 3b6dec3f86e134401fc31e17e0857a042653c1a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:15:10 -0800 Subject: sysrq: Fix warning in sysrq generated crash. commit 984cf355aeaa8f2eda3861b50d0e8d3e3f77e83b upstream. Commit 984d74a72076a1 ("sysrq: rcu-ify __handle_sysrq") replaced spin_lock_irqsave() calls with rcu_read_lock() calls in sysrq. Since rcu_read_lock() does not disable preemption, faulthandler_disabled() in __do_page_fault() in x86/fault.c returns false. When the code later calls might_sleep() in the pagefault handler, we get the following warning: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1187 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4706, name: bash Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff81484339>] printk+0x48/0x4a To fix this, we release the RCU read lock before we crash. Tested this patch on linux 3.18 by booting off one of our boards. Fixes: 984d74a72076a1 ("sysrq: rcu-ify __handle_sysrq") Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- drivers/tty/sysrq.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)