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[PATCH] lockdep: register_lock_class() fix
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The hash_lock must only ever be taken with irqs disabled.  This happens in
all the important places, except one codepath: register_lock_class().  The
race should trigger rarely because register_lock_class() is quite rare and
single-threaded (happens during init most of the time).

The fix is to disable irqs.

( bug found live in -rt: there preemption is alot more agressive and
  preempting with the hash-lock held caused a lockup.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 7, 2006
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions kernel/lockdep.c
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Expand Up @@ -1182,6 +1182,7 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass, int force)
struct lockdep_subclass_key *key;
struct list_head *hash_head;
struct lock_class *class;
unsigned long flags;

class = look_up_lock_class(lock, subclass);
if (likely(class))
Expand All @@ -1203,6 +1204,7 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass, int force)
key = lock->key->subkeys + subclass;
hash_head = classhashentry(key);

raw_local_irq_save(flags);
__raw_spin_lock(&hash_lock);
/*
* We have to do the hash-walk again, to avoid races
Expand All @@ -1217,6 +1219,7 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass, int force)
*/
if (nr_lock_classes >= MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS) {
__raw_spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
debug_locks_off();
printk("BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS too low!\n");
printk("turning off the locking correctness validator.\n");
Expand All @@ -1239,15 +1242,18 @@ register_lock_class(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass, int force)

if (verbose(class)) {
__raw_spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
printk("\nnew class %p: %s", class->key, class->name);
if (class->name_version > 1)
printk("#%d", class->name_version);
printk("\n");
dump_stack();
raw_local_irq_save(flags);
__raw_spin_lock(&hash_lock);
}
out_unlock_set:
__raw_spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
raw_local_irq_restore(flags);

if (!subclass || force)
lock->class_cache = class;
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