linux-kernel - [GIT pull] core fixes for 3.1

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1108171746050.2807@ionos>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:46:53 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [GIT pull] core fixes for 3.1

Linus,

Please pull the latest core-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core-fixes-for-linus

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Peter Zijlstra (1):
      lockdep: Fix wrong assumption in match_held_lock


 kernel/lockdep.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index 8c24294..91d67ce 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -3111,7 +3111,13 @@ static int match_held_lock(struct held_lock *hlock, struct lockdep_map *lock)
 		if (!class)
 			class = look_up_lock_class(lock, 0);
 
-		if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!class))
+		/*
+		 * If look_up_lock_class() failed to find a class, we're trying
+		 * to test if we hold a lock that has never yet been acquired.
+		 * Clearly if the lock hasn't been acquired _ever_, we're not
+		 * holding it either, so report failure.
+		 */
+		if (!class)
 			return 0;
 
 		if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!hlock->nest_lock))
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