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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Davide Libenzi" <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	"Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH mm] epoll: lock ep->mtx in ep_free to silence lockdep
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:09:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130314030900.GA30154@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130310115028.GB16551@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Technically we do not need to hold ep->mtx during ep_free since we are
certain there are no other users of ep at that point.  However, lockdep
complains with a "suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!" message;
so lock the mutex before ep_remove to silence the warning.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
---
  I considered using lockdep_off()/lockdep_on(), but I figure that may
  hide other bugs...

 fs/eventpoll.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 633e69f..d71b754 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -745,11 +745,15 @@ static void ep_free(struct eventpoll *ep)
 	 * point we are sure no poll callbacks will be lingering around, and also by
 	 * holding "epmutex" we can be sure that no file cleanup code will hit
 	 * us during this operation. So we can avoid the lock on "ep->lock".
+	 * We do not need to lock ep->mtx, either, we only do it to prevent
+	 * a lockdep warning.
 	 */
+	mutex_lock(&ep->mtx);
 	while ((rbp = rb_first(&ep->rbr)) != NULL) {
 		epi = rb_entry(rbp, struct epitem, rbn);
 		ep_remove(ep, epi);
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);
 
 	mutex_unlock(&epmutex);
 	mutex_destroy(&ep->mtx);
-- 
Eric Wong

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-14  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 11:26 epoll: possible bug from wakeup_source activation Eric Wong
2013-03-08  1:30 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-08  4:56   ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2013-03-08 20:49     ` Eric Wong
2013-03-09  4:09       ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2013-03-09  7:10         ` Eric Wong
2013-03-10  1:11           ` Eric Wong
2013-03-10  4:59             ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-10 11:50               ` [PATCH] epoll: use RCU protect wakeup_source in epitem Eric Wong
2013-03-14  3:09                 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2013-03-11 23:37           ` epoll: possible bug from wakeup_source activation Arve Hjønnevåg
2013-03-12  0:17             ` Eric Wong
2013-03-12  0:29               ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2013-03-12  0:44                 ` Eric Wong

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