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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-19 22:10:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-19 22:10:26 -0800
commitece8e0b2f9c980e5511fe8db2d68c6f1859b9d83 (patch)
tree70f1e3363080884965686576d079d24da8863a58 /kernel/kmod.c
parent67cb104b4c30bd52292b6a7f526349aab2dd5cbd (diff)
parenta0327ff0eda915be623658babacef706099c11a8 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-3.9-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull async changes from Tejun Heo: "These are followups for the earlier deadlock issue involving async ending up waiting for itself through block requesting module[1]. The following changes are made by these commits. - Instead of requesting default elevator on each request_queue init, block now requests it once early during boot. - Kmod triggers warning if invoked from an async worker. - Async synchronization implementation has been reimplemented. It's a lot simpler now." * 'for-3.9-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: async: initialise list heads to fix crash async: replace list of active domains with global list of pending items async: keep pending tasks on async_domain and remove async_pending async: use ULLONG_MAX for infinity cookie value async: bring sanity to the use of words domain and running async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers block: don't request module during elevator init init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 0023a87e8de..56dd34976d7 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <trace/events/module.h>
@@ -130,6 +131,14 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
#define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50 /* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
static int kmod_loop_msg;
+ /*
+ * We don't allow synchronous module loading from async. Module
+ * init may invoke async_synchronize_full() which will end up
+ * waiting for this task which already is waiting for the module
+ * loading to complete, leading to a deadlock.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(wait && current_is_async());
+
va_start(args, fmt);
ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args);
va_end(args);