netdev - Re: [PATCH] vsock: make listener child lock ordering explicit

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	stefanha@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, imbrenda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	jhansen@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsock: make listener child lock ordering explicit

From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:28:58 +0100

> There are several places where the listener and pending or accept queue
> child sockets are accessed at the same time.  Lockdep is unhappy that
> two locks from the same class are held.
> 
> Tell lockdep that it is safe and document the lock ordering.
> 
> Originally Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> sent a similar
> patch asking whether this is safe.  I have audited the code and also
> covered the vsock_pending_work() function.
> 
> Suggested-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.