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Subjectinotify issue: iput called atomically
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Hi Robert,

it looks like you shouldn't call iput with spinlocks held. iput might
call down into the filesystem to delete the inode and this can sleep.

Mar 27 14:38:18 server Debug: sleeping function called from invalid
context at include/asm/semaphore.h:102
Mar 27 14:38:18 server in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c0103e37>] dump_stack+0x17/0x20
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c0118973>] __might_sleep+0xa3/0xb0
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c03fc5ab>] lock_kernel+0x2b/0x50
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c019fc33>] reiserfs_delete_inode+0x13/0x100
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c0172c64>] generic_delete_inode+0xa4/0x160
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c0172f16>] iput+0x56/0x80
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c017f9bd>] remove_watch_no_event+0x8d/0x100
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c01805f9>] inotify_ignore+0x49/0x90
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c018070d>] inotify_ioctl+0xcd/0x110
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c016ac26>] do_ioctl+0x76/0x90
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c016adb9>] vfs_ioctl+0x59/0x1c0
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c016af59>] sys_ioctl+0x39/0x60
Mar 27 14:38:18 server [<c0102f6b>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75

I've looked through the code and iput can usually be called after
releasing spinlocks. It doesn't look trivial to implement though.

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