linux-kernel - [35/89] lockdep: Fix lock_is

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:59:58 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [35/89] lockdep: Fix lock_is_held() on recursion

2.6.39-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>

commit f2513cde93f0957d5dc6c09bc24b0cccd27d8e1d upstream.

The main lock_is_held() user is lockdep_assert_held(), avoid false
assertions in lockdep_off() sections by unconditionally reporting the
lock is taken.

[ the reason this is important is a lockdep_assert_held() in ttwu()
  which triggers a warning under lockdep_off() as in printk() which
  can trigger another wakeup and lock up due to spinlock
  recursion, as reported and heroically debugged by Arne Jansen ]

Reported-and-tested-by: Arne Jansen <lists@...-jansens.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307398759.2497.966.camel@laptop
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 kernel/lockdep.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -3242,7 +3242,7 @@ int lock_is_held(struct lockdep_map *loc
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(current->lockdep_recursion))
-		return ret;
+		return 1; /* avoid false negative lockdep_assert_held() */
 
 	raw_local_irq_save(flags);
 	check_flags(flags);


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