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SubjectRe: [lkp] [panic] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:12:50 +0800 kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit 08d78658f393fefaa2e6507ea052c6f8ef4002a2 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out")
>
> ...
>
> [ 38.408623] =====================================
> [ 38.408623] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
> [ 38.408627] 4.3.0-08150-g08d7865 #1 Not tainted
> [ 38.408627] -------------------------------------
> [ 38.408631] swapper/0/1 is trying to release lock (console_lock) at:
> [ 38.408639] [<ffffffff811a3cb1>] panic+0x124/0x213
> [ 38.408640] but there are no more locks to release!
> [ 38.408641]
> [ 38.408641] other info that might help us debug this:
> [ 38.408642] 2 locks held by swapper/0/1:
> [ 38.408651] #0: (oom_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff811add45>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x5bd/0x68d
> [ 38.408656] #1: (panic_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff811a3bd9>] panic+0x4c/0x213
> [ 38.408657]
> [ 38.408657] stack backtrace:
> [ 38.408659] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.3.0-08150-g08d7865 #1
> [ 38.408660] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Debian-1.8.2-1 04/01/2014
> [ 38.408665] 0000000000000000 ffff8800132bba78 ffffffff8173760d ffff8800132b4040
> [ 38.408668] ffff8800132bbaa0 ffffffff8111328c 00000000ffffffff ffff8800132b4040
> [ 38.408670] ffffffff8406a080 ffff8800132bbb18 ffffffff8111626c ffffffff811139d1
> [ 38.408671] Call Trace:
> [ 38.408678] [<ffffffff8173760d>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
> [ 38.408682] [<ffffffff8111328c>] print_unlock_imbalance_bug+0xc7/0xd0

Yup, we can't have this happen.

Can we instead do this?

if (is_console_locked())
console_unlock();

It's racy, but more accurate than what we have now?


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