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Subject: Re: [linux-next / tty] possible circular locking dependency detected
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
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From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 12:27:31 +0200
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On 05/22/17 12:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 04:39:43PM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> [ 1274.378287] ======================================================
>> [ 1274.378289] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
>> [ 1274.378290] 4.12.0-rc1-next-20170522-dbg-00007-gc09b2ab28b74-dirty #1317 Not tainted
>> [ 1274.378291] ------------------------------------------------------
>> [ 1274.378293] kworker/u8:5/111 is trying to acquire lock:
>> [ 1274.378294]  (&buf->lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff812f2831>] tty_buffer_flush+0x34/0x88
>> [ 1274.378300]
>>                 but task is already holding lock:
>> [ 1274.378301]  (&o_tty->termios_rwsem/1){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff812ee5c7>] isig+0x47/0xd2
>> [ 1274.378307]
>>                 which lock already depends on the new lock.
>>

> Any hint as to what you were doing when this happened?
> 
> Does this also show up in 4.11?

It's my patch "tty: fix port buffer locking" :-/

At a glance, looks related to pty taking the lock on the other side in a
different order. I'll have a closer look.


Vegard