Re: sched/core: WARNING in __might_sleep

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Feb 01 2016 - 06:44:33 EST


On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 12:26:06PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-02-01 at 12:13 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > Yeah, from the rfkill code, which you failed to CC.
>
> Thanks Peter :)
>
> > In any case, this is a fail in the rfkill code, which should be
> > sorted
> > with the below patch (but the rfkill people should double check), and
> > ideally they'd use list_empty_careful() instead of the mutex, but I
> > don't know their code well enough to say if that's safe or not.
>
> Even list_empty() is fine in this case since we go and recheck it
> anyway in the calling loop, while the mutex is held.
>
> I have commit 6736fde9672f on its way to mainline.

OK, that looks good. Thanks!