printk, vt: sleep from invalid context bug

From: Nam Cao

Date: Mon Feb 16 2026 - 21:14:44 EST


Hi,

Since commit 1bc9a28f076f ("printk: Use console_flush_one_record for
legacy printer kthread"), I see this warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/printk/printk.c:3431
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 14, name: pr/legacy
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
4 locks held by pr/legacy/14:
#0: ffffffff807dcdf0 (console_lock){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: legacy_kthread_func+0x40/0x114
#1: ffffffff807dce30 (console_srcu){....}-{0:0}, at: console_flush_one_record+0x0/0x3c8
#2: ffffffff8083af88 (printing_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vt_console_print+0x48/0x330
#3: ffffffff807df2e8 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rt_spin_trylock+0x24/0x138
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 14 Comm: pr/legacy Not tainted 6.19.0-rvvm-09292-g7449f86bafcd #79 PREEMPT_RT
Hardware name: RVVM v0.7-git-g8c45ccf (DT)
Call Trace:
walk_stackframe+0x0/0x80
dump_stack_lvl+0x4e/0x74
rt_spin_trylock+0x9e/0x138
__might_resched+0x19e/0x1e0
fbcon_redraw+0x74/0x1a0
fbcon_scroll+0xf2/0x13c
con_scroll+0x122/0x188
lf+0x6a/0x74
vt_console_print+0x2ac/0x330
console_flush_one_record+0x208/0x3c8
console_flush_one_record+0x3c4/0x3c8
kthread+0xc6/0x100
legacy_kthread_func+0x4c/0x114
prio_changed_stop+0xc/0x10
kthread+0xc6/0x100
ret_from_fork_kernel_asm+0x12/0x18
ret_from_fork_kernel+0xe/0x3fc
rt_spin_unlock+0x56/0x128
kthread_affine_node+0x88/0x8c
ret_from_fork_kernel_asm+0x12/0x18

If I understand it correctly, vt_console_print() grabs the spin lock
"printing_lock", and then calls fbcon_redraw() which does
console_conditional_schedule(), triggering the warning.

Nam