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Eric W. Biederman committed dfb2ea45bec
proc: Allow proc_free_inum to be called from any context While testing the pid namespace code I hit this nasty warning. [ 176.262617] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 176.263388] WARNING: at /home/eric/projects/linux/linux-userns-devel/kernel/softirq.c:160 local_bh_enable_ip+0x7a/0xa0() [ 176.265145] Hardware name: Bochs [ 176.265677] Modules linked in: [ 176.266341] Pid: 742, comm: bash Not tainted 3.7.0userns+ #18 [ 176.266564] Call Trace: [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810a539f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810a53fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810ad9ea>] local_bh_enable_ip+0x7a/0xa0 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff819308c9>] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x19/0x20 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff8123dbda>] proc_free_inum+0x3a/0x50 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff8111d0dc>] free_pid_ns+0x1c/0x80 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff8111d195>] put_pid_ns+0x35/0x50 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810c608a>] put_pid+0x4a/0x60 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff8146b177>] tty_ioctl+0x717/0xc10 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810aa4d5>] ? wait_consider_task+0x855/0xb90 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff81086bf9>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x9/0x10 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810cab0a>] ? remove_wait_queue+0x5a/0x70 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff811e37e8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x550 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810b8a0f>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x1f/0x60 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810b9127>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x37/0x80 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810ab95b>] ? sys_wait4+0xab/0xf0 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff811e3d31>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff810a95f0>] ? task_stopped_code+0x50/0x50 [ 176.266564] [<ffffffff81939199>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 176.266564] ---[ end trace 387af88219ad6143 ]--- It turns out that spin_unlock_bh(proc_inum_lock) is not safe when put_pid is called with another spinlock held and irqs disabled. For now take the easy path and use spin_lock_irqsave(proc_inum_lock) in proc_free_inum and spin_loc_irq in proc_alloc_inum(proc_inum_lock). Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>