linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools/liblockdep: Fix debug

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Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2014 17:21:48 +0300
From:	Kirill Smelkov <kirr@...edi.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/liblockdep: Fix debug_check thinko in mutex destroy

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:59:54AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 12/08/2014 06:07 AM, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> > In mutex destroy code currently we pass to debug_check_no_locks_freed()
> > 
> >     [mem_from, mem_end)
> > 
> > address region. But debug_check_no_locks_freed() accepts
> > 
> >     mem_from, mem_*len*
> > 
> > i.e. second parameter is region length, not end address. And it was
> > always so, starting from 2006 (fbb9ce95 "lockdep: core").
> > 
> > Fix it, or else on a mutex destroy we wrongly check
> > much-wider-than-mutex region and can find not-yet-released other locks
> > there and wrongly report BUGs on them.
> 
> Great catch, thanks!

Thanks, where is this patch is/will-be applied?

I mean I could not find it neither in

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/linux.git

nor anywhere in linux-next nor in Linus's tree.

Thanks,
Kirill
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