netdev - Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-softirq-W} -> {softirq-on-R} usage.

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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:18:43 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org (Andrew Morton)
Cc:	miles.lane@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-softirq-W} -> {softirq-on-R} usage.

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I'd say you hit a networking locking bug and then when trying to report
> that bug, lockdep crashed.
> 
> The networking bug looks to be around sock_i_ino()'s taking of
> sk_callback_lock with softirq's enabled.  Perhaps this will fix it.
> 
> diff -puN net/core/sock.c~a net/core/sock.c
> --- a/net/core/sock.c~a
> +++ a/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -1115,9 +1115,9 @@ int sock_i_uid(struct sock *sk)
> {
>        int uid;
> 
> -       read_lock(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
> +       read_lock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
>        uid = sk->sk_socket ? SOCK_INODE(sk->sk_socket)->i_uid : 0;
> -       read_unlock(&sk->sk_callback_lock);
> +       read_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_callback_lock);

The callback lock is never taken for writing in BH context so
this shouldn't be needed.

Let's fix the lockdep checker first and then decide what's broken
in networking, OK?

Cheers,
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