From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: hv_balloon: keep locks balanced on add_memory() failure
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 03:06:08 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <680331570.19311911.1425542768518.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1424435367-26384-1-git-send-email-vkuznets@redhat.com>
----- Original Message -----
> When add_memory() fails the following BUG is observed:
> [ 743.646107] hv_balloon: hot_add memory failed error is -17
> [ 743.679973]
> [ 743.680930] =====================================
> [ 743.680930] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
> [ 743.680930] 3.19.0-rc5_bug1131426+ #552 Not tainted
> [ 743.680930] -------------------------------------
> [ 743.680930] kworker/0:2/255 is trying to release lock
> (&dm_device.ha_region_mutex) at:
> [ 743.680930] [<ffffffff81aae5fe>] mutex_unlock+0xe/0x10
> [ 743.680930] but there are no more locks to release!
>
> This happens as we don't acquire ha_region_mutex and hot_add_req() expects us
> to as it does unconditional mutex_unlock(). Acquire the lock on the error
> path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
> This patch is dependent on the previously posted 'Drivers: hv: hv_balloon:
> eliminate the trylock path in acquire/release_region_mutex'.
> ---
> drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
> index 1283035..771bf84 100644
> --- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
> @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ static void hv_mem_hot_add(unsigned long start, unsigned
> long size,
> }
> has->ha_end_pfn -= HA_CHUNK;
> has->covered_end_pfn -= processed_pfn;
> + mutex_lock(&dm_device.ha_region_mutex);
> break;
> }
>
> --
> 1.9.3
>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-20 12:29 Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-03-02 10:33 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2015-03-07 0:35 ` KY Srinivasan
2015-03-05 8:06 ` Jason Wang [this message]
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