add two more might_sleep() checks: to sync_inode() and generic_osync_inode(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- linux/fs/fs-writeback.c.orig +++ linux/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ int sync_inode(struct inode *inode, stru { int ret; + might_sleep(); spin_lock(&inode_lock); ret = __writeback_single_inode(inode, wbc); spin_unlock(&inode_lock); @@ -622,6 +623,7 @@ int generic_osync_inode(struct inode *in } current->flags &= ~PF_SYNCWRITE; + might_sleep(); spin_lock(&inode_lock); if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) && ((what & OSYNC_INODE) || (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_DATASYNC)))