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Subjectcheck_usage_backwards() && forwards? (Was: [2.6.33-rc5] starting emacs makes lockdep warning)
(add  lockdep gurus)

Lockdep has found the real bug, but the output doesn't look right to me

On 01/26, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> =========================================================
> [ 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: [<ffffffff8127c648>] tty_fasync+0xe8/0x190
> but this lock took another, HARDIRQ-unsafe lock in the past:
> (&(&sighand->siglock)->rlock){-.....}

"HARDIRQ-unsafe" and "this lock took another" looks wrong, afaics.

> ... key at: [<ffffffff81c054a4>] __key.46539+0x0/0x8
> ... acquired at:
> [<ffffffff81089af6>] __lock_acquire+0x1056/0x15a0
> [<ffffffff8108a0df>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0x120
> [<ffffffff81423012>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x52/0x90
> [<ffffffff8127c1be>] __proc_set_tty+0x3e/0x150
> [<ffffffff8127e01d>] tty_open+0x51d/0x5e0

The stack-trace shows that this lock (ctrl_lock) was taken under
->siglock (which is hopefully irq-safe).

Typo in check_usage_backwards() ?

Oleg.

--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -2147,7 +2147,7 @@ check_usage_backwards(struct task_struct
return ret;

return print_irq_inversion_bug(curr, &root, target_entry,
- this, 1, irqclass);
+ this, 0, irqclass);
}

void print_irqtrace_events(struct task_struct *curr)


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