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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2011-08-05 14:26:17 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-08-09 11:57:35 +0200
commit80e0401e35410a69bfae05b454db8a7187edd6b8 (patch)
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parent2f84dd70916ccadd25e94d28363182a978f569b6 (diff)
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lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock
match_held_lock() was assuming it was being called on a lock class that had already seen usage. This condition was true for bug-free code using lockdep_assert_held(), since you're in fact holding the lock when calling it. However the assumption fails the moment you assume the assertion can fail, which is the whole point of having the assertion in the first place. Anyway, now that there's more lockdep_is_held() users, notably __rcu_dereference_check(), its much easier to trigger this since we test for a number of locks and we only need to hold any one of them to be good. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312547787.28695.2.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/lockdep.c')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index 8c24294e477f..91d67ce3a8d5 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -3111,7 +3111,13 @@ static int match_held_lock(struct held_lock *hlock, struct lockdep_map *lock)
if (!class)
class = look_up_lock_class(lock, 0);
- if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!class))
+ /*
+ * If look_up_lock_class() failed to find a class, we're trying
+ * to test if we hold a lock that has never yet been acquired.
+ * Clearly if the lock hasn't been acquired _ever_, we're not
+ * holding it either, so report failure.
+ */
+ if (!class)
return 0;
if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!hlock->nest_lock))