On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:45:10AM +0100, Sven Geggus wrote:
> This is the bad commit I found doing git bisect:
> 04f482faf5 is the first bad commit
> commit 04f482faf5
> Author: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon Mar 28 08:39:36 2011 +0000
Good job. I was too lazy to bisect for bad commit;)
Reading the code I found problematic kthread_should_stop call from netlink
connector which causes the oops. After applying a patch, I've been testing
owfs+w1 setup for nearly two days and it seems to work very reliable (no
hangs, no memleaks etc).
More detailed description and possible fix is given below:
Function w1_search can be called from either kthread or netlink callback.
While the former works fine, the latter causes oops due to kthread_should_stop
invocation.
This patch adds a check if w1_search is serving netlink command, skipping
kthread_should_stop invocation if so.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Jurkowski <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sven Geggus <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: stable <[email protected]> # 3.0+
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