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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/3] Fix hibernation restore hang in freeze_processes
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On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 04:01:58 PM Sebastian Capella wrote:
> During restore, pm_notifier chain are called with
> PM_RESTORE_PREPARE. The firmware_class driver handler
> fw_pm_notify does not have a handler for this. As a result,
> it keeps a reader on the kmod.c umhelper_sem. During
> freeze_processes, the call to __usermodehelper_disable tries to
> take a write lock on this semaphore and hangs waiting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Capella <sebastian.capella@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
> Cc: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@ti.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Since this is a -stable candidate patch, I've queued it up as a fix for 3.14.

The other two patches are ARM mostly, so I'd prefer them to be merged through
the ARM arch tree. The changes in suspend.h made by [3/3] are fine by me.

Thanks!

> ---
> drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> index eb8fb94..e2b51f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> @@ -1541,6 +1541,7 @@ static int fw_pm_notify(struct notifier_block *notify_block,
> switch (mode) {
> case PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE:
> case PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE:
> + case PM_RESTORE_PREPARE:
> kill_requests_without_uevent();
> device_cache_fw_images();
> break;
>

--
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.


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