From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755859Ab0A0BJJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:09:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755421Ab0A0BJI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:09:08 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:54416 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753605Ab0A0BJG (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:09:06 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Americo Wang Subject: Re: [Patch] fix the lockdep warning in tty_fasync() Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, "Eric W. Biederman" , Al Viro , Tavis Ormandy , Jeff Dike , Julien Tinnes , Matt Mackall , LKML , Oleg Nesterov , Alan Cox , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20100126155819.GB3780@hack> References: <20100126155819.GB3780@hack> Message-Id: <20100127100742.6AD8.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:09:04 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Commit 703625118 causes a lockdep warning: > > [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] > 2.6.33-rc5 #77 > --------------------------------------------------------- > emacs/1609 just changed the state of lock: > (&(&tty->ctrl_lock)->rlock){+.....}, at: [] > tty_fasync+0xe8/0x190 > but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-unsafe lock in the past: > (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.....} > > This is due to we use write_lock_irq() in __f_setown() which turns > the IRQ on in write_unlock_irq(), causes this warning. > > Switch it to write_lock_irqsave() and write_unlock_irqrestore(), > as suggested by Eric. > > Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro > Signed-off-by: WANG Cong > Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" > > --- > diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c > index 97e01dc..82cc8a7 100644 > --- a/fs/fcntl.c > +++ b/fs/fcntl.c > @@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg) > static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type, > int force) > { > - write_lock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock); > + unsigned long flags; > + write_lock_irqsave(&filp->f_owner.lock, flags); > if (force || !filp->f_owner.pid) { > put_pid(filp->f_owner.pid); > filp->f_owner.pid = get_pid(pid); > @@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ static void f_modown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type, > filp->f_owner.euid = cred->euid; > } > } > - write_unlock_irq(&filp->f_owner.lock); > + write_unlock_irqrestore(&filp->f_owner.lock, flags); > } > > int __f_setown(struct file *filp, struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type, I've confirmed the warning disappear :) Thanks.