The kernel may sleep with holding a spinlock.
The function call paths (from bottom to top) in Linux-4.16 are:
[FUNC] schedule
fs/inode.c, 1916: schedule in __wait_on_freeing_inode
fs/inode.c, 826: __wait_on_freeing_inode in find_inode_fast
fs/inode.c, 1107: find_inode_fast in iget_locked
fs/jffs2/fs.c, 263: iget_locked in jffs2_iget
fs/jffs2/fs.c, 665: jffs2_iget in jffs2_gc_fetch_inode
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c, 505: jffs2_gc_fetch_inode in jffs2_wbuf_recover
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c, 462: spin_lock in jffs2_wbuf_recover
[FUNC] mutex_lock_nested
fs/jffs2/fs.c, 273: mutex_lock_nested in jffs2_iget
fs/jffs2/fs.c, 665: jffs2_iget in jffs2_gc_fetch_inode
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c, 505: jffs2_gc_fetch_inode in jffs2_wbuf_recover
fs/jffs2/wbuf.c, 462: spin_lock in jffs2_wbuf_recover
I do not find a good way to fix, so I only report.
Maybe the spinlock should be released before calling jffs2_iget(), and
then be acquired again.
This is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC).
Thanks,
Jia-Ju Bai