When inserting a wrong value to /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/state file,
following messages are shown. And device_hotplug_lock is never released.
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[ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
3.12.0-rc4-debug+ #3 Tainted: G W
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bash/6442 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by bash/6442:
#0: (device_hotplug_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<
ffffffff8146cbb5>] lock_device_hotplug_sysfs+0x15/0x50
This issue was introdued by commit
fa2be40 (drivers: base: use standard
device online/offline for state change).
This patch releases device_hotplug_lcok when store_mem_state returns EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
CC: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
online_type = ONLINE_KEEP;
else if (!strncmp(buf, "offline", min_t(int, count, 7)))
online_type = -1;
- else
- return -EINVAL;
+ else {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }
switch (online_type) {
case ONLINE_KERNEL:
ret = -EINVAL; /* should never happen */
}
+err:
unlock_device_hotplug();
if (ret)