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We are hitting a regression with the following commit:
commit a93e7b3315
Author: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Date: Mon May 14 13:32:23 2018 +1200
uio: Prevent device destruction while fds are open
The problem is the addition of spin_lock_irqsave in uio_write. This
leads to hitting uio_write -> copy_from_user -> _copy_from_user ->
might_fault and the logs filling up with sleeping warnings.
I also noticed some uio drivers allocate memory, sleep, grab mutexes
from callouts like open() and release and uio is now doing
spin_lock_irqsave while calling them.
Reported-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
CC: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Reviewed-by: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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