Re: [PATCH] random: Support freezable kthreads in add_hwgenerator_randomness()

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Sep 04 2019 - 07:00:52 EST


On 2019-08-22 15:55:19 [+1000], Herbert Xu wrote:
> Patch applied. Thanks.
[ ff296293b3538 ("random: Support freezable kthreads in add_hwgenerator_randomness()") ]

and since kthread_freezable_should_stop() has might_sleep() in it, I get
this:

|: do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<00000000349d1489>] prepare_to_wait_event+0x5a/0x180
|: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 828 at kernel/sched/core.c:6741 __might_sleep+0x6f/0x80
|: Modules linked in:
|:
|: CPU: 0 PID: 828 Comm: hwrng Not tainted 5.3.0-rc7-next-20190903+ #46
|: RIP: 0010:__might_sleep+0x6f/0x80
â
|: Call Trace:
|: kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x1b/0x60
|: add_hwgenerator_randomness+0xdd/0x130
|: hwrng_fillfn+0xbf/0x120
|: kthread+0x10c/0x140
|: ret_from_fork+0x27/0x50

Sebastian