linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Fix lockdep false positives in acpi_power

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2011 09:40:22 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrea Righi <andrea@...terlinux.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Fix lockdep false positives in acpi_power_off()

On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:32:11AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> Subject: ACPI: Fix lockdep false positives in acpi_power_off()
> 
> All ACPICA locks are allocated and initialized by the same function,
> acpi_os_create_lock(), with the help of a local variable called
> "lock".  Thus, when lockdep is enabled, it uses "lock" as the
> name of all those locks and regards them as instances of the same
> lock, which causes it to report possible locking problems with them
> when there aren't any.
> 
> To work around this problem, define acpi_os_create_lock() as a macro
> and make it pass its argument to spin_lock_init(), so that lockdep
> uses it as the name of the new lock.  Define this macron in a
> Linux-specific file to minimize the resulting modifications of
> the OS-independent ACPICA parts.
> 
> This change is based on an earlier patch from Andrea Righi and it
> addresses a regression from 2.6.39 tracked as
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38152
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@...terlinux.com>

Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/