Greetings, I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is commit c5d0282a0405b0a81fa3390e4230e4cbb3ced7a2 Author: Davidlohr Bueso Date: Fri Jul 19 09:56:58 2013 +1000 ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat Similar to other system calls, acquire the kern_ipc_perm lock after doing the initial permission and security checks. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Tested-by: Sedat Dilek Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Manfred Spraul Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ 20.702156] [ 20.702493] ================================================ [ 20.703511] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] [ 20.704532] 3.11.0-rc1-next-20130719 #50 Not tainted [ 20.705416] ------------------------------------------------ [ 20.706425] trinity-child0/174 is leaving the kernel with locks still held! [ 20.707638] 1 lock held by trinity-child0/174: [ 20.708475] #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [] do_shmat+0xe1/0x500 git bisect start c1f631b9a68251007a6353041ae90f9f7dca771c d03792f9db9b892f494d3aa19d767ddf0365d1ff -- git bisect good 10a3f1f902465ae1320cc95a3284fd3697e05dd8 # 11:14 65+ binfmt_elf.c: use get_random_int() to fix entropy depleting git bisect bad dac28788378838efb63e37a7eabd7729d97aba6b # 11:32 0- dcache: remove dentries from LRU before putting on dispose list git bisect good 3140b2ed6dfe5c9e5eca371c77ca85dca05321d4 # 11:50 65+ ipc,shm: introduce shmctl_nolock git bisect bad 48a91248649fa3327bd8a31c114ee9149a07f3a7 # 12:04 0- staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API git bisect good 98b78126a51aa5d3ee6d5dae5768e0d16deeeaa3 # 12:14 65+ ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta git bisect bad 36ccfd799cad33e2edd5c14ac8776b33e63d195b # 12:14 0- ipc: rename ids->rw_mutex git bisect bad c5d0282a0405b0a81fa3390e4230e4cbb3ced7a2 # 12:14 0- ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat git bisect good 98b78126a51aa5d3ee6d5dae5768e0d16deeeaa3 # 15:34 195+ ipc,shm: cleanup do_shmat pasta git bisect bad c1f631b9a68251007a6353041ae90f9f7dca771c # 15:34 0- Add linux-next specific files for 20130719 git bisect good 709b465ee655387c4ec056383fa27f16c64f48db # 18:21 195+ Revert "ipc,shm: shorten critical region for shmat" git bisect good d471ce53b1fab60110e4e9f647a345cea31752de # 18:44 195+ Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml git bisect bad c1f631b9a68251007a6353041ae90f9f7dca771c # 18:44 0- Add linux-next specific files for 20130719 Thanks, Fengguang