linux-kernel - [PATCH 02/21] liblockdep: Reduce MAX_LOCK_DEPTH to avoid overflowing lock

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Message-ID: <20170525130005.5947-3-alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2017 12:58:33 +0000
From:   "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
To:     "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>
CC:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ben@...adent.org.uk" <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        "a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 02/21] liblockdep: Reduce MAX_LOCK_DEPTH to avoid overflowing
 lock_chain::depth

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

liblockdep has been broken since commit 75dd602a5198 ("lockdep: Fix
lock_chain::base size"), as that adds a check that MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is
within the range of lock_chain::depth and in liblockdep it is much
too large.

That should have resulted in a compiler error, but didn't because:

- the check uses ARRAY_SIZE(), which isn't yet defined in liblockdep
  so is assumed to be an (undeclared) function
- putting a function call inside a BUILD_BUG_ON() expression quietly
  turns it into some nonsense involving a variable-length array

It did produce a compiler warning, but I didn't notice because
liblockdep already produces too many warnings if -Wall is enabled
(which I'll fix shortly).

Even before that commit, which reduced lock_chain::depth from 8 bits
to 6, MAX_LOCK_DEPTH was too large.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # for versions before 4.6, use a value of 255
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
---
 tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h b/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h
index c808c7d02d21..d30214221920 100644
--- a/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/tools/lib/lockdep/uinclude/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 
-#define MAX_LOCK_DEPTH 2000UL
+#define MAX_LOCK_DEPTH 63UL
 
 #define asmlinkage
 #define __visible
-- 
2.11.0