genhd: fix leftover might_sleep() in blk_free_devt()
authorJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:38:51 +0000 (13:38 -0600)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 5 Nov 2014 20:27:49 +0000 (20:27 +0000)
commit 46f341ffcfb5d8530f7d1e60f3be06cce6661b62 upstream.

Commit 2da78092 changed the locking from a mutex to a spinlock,
so we now longer sleep in this context. But there was a leftover
might_sleep() in there, which now triggers since we do the final
free from an RCU callback. Get rid of it.

Reported-by: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
block/genhd.c

index 3541581..41b0435 100644 (file)
@@ -448,8 +448,6 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *part, dev_t *devt)
  */
 void blk_free_devt(dev_t devt)
 {
-       might_sleep();
-
        if (devt == MKDEV(0, 0))
                return;