Re: [patch 1/1] devtmpfs: Convert dirlock to a mutex

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:31:33PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> devtmpfs has a rw_lock dirlock which serializes delete_path and
> create_path.
> 
> This code was obviously never tested with the usual set of debugging
> facilities enabled. In the dirlock held sections the code calls:
> 
>  - vfs functions which take mutexes
>  - kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> In both code pathes the might sleep warning triggers and spams dmesg.
> 
> Convert the rw_lock to a mutex. There is no reason why this needs to
> be a rwlock.

Many thanks, this is correct.  I'll go queue it up.

greg k-h
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