linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernfs: skip lockdep annotation always if ignore

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Date:	Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:53:13 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Imre Deak <imre.deak@...el.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernfs: skip lockdep annotation always if ignore_lockdep
 is set

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:47:01PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> We skip lockdep annotations for sysfs attributes with ignore_lockdep
> set. An exception is kernfs_deactivate where we annotate even in this
> case. Since the lockdep map key needed for the annotation is not
> initialized whenever ignore_lockdep is set, we'll get a warning for
> the uninitialized key.
> 
> Note that this happens since,
> 
> commit 517e64f57883bd63c5a4ab8b3d0d3ed68c55d0cf
> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date:   Thu Nov 28 14:54:29 2013 -0500
> 
> Before this change we had a valid key even in case of ignore_lockdep, so
> the annotation in kernfs_deactivate worked, or at least didn't produce
> the above warning. Fix this by skipping the annotation whenever
> ignore_lockdep is set.
> 
> The actual attribute triggering the bug was 'delete_device' in
> drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c, for the backtrace see the reference below.

I think Greg already has about the same patch queued.

  http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140129170403.GJ30842@htj.dyndns.org

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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