When an nbd request times out then the nbd_xmit_timeout tries to close the socket by taking a spin_lock over the socket. This however generates a warning on kernel_sock_shutdown. This patch fixes this issue. Pranay Kr. Srivastava (1): fix might_sleep warning on socket shutdown drivers/block/nbd.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) -- 2.6.2