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    lockdep: more robust lockdep_map init sequence · c8a25005
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    
    
    Steven Rostedt reported:
    
    > OK, I think I figured this bug out. This is a lockdep issue with respect
    > to tracepoints.
    >
    > The trace points in lockdep are called all the time. Outside the lockdep
    > logic. But if lockdep were to trigger an error / warning (which this run
    > did) we might be in trouble. For new locks, like the dentry->d_lock, that
    > are created, they will not get a name:
    >
    > void lockdep_init_map(struct lockdep_map *lock, const char *name,
    >                       struct lock_class_key *key, int subclass)
    > {
    >         if (unlikely(!debug_locks))
    >                 return;
    >
    > When a problem is found by lockdep, debug_locks becomes false. Thus we
    > stop allocating names for locks. This dentry->d_lock I had, now has no
    > name. Worse yet, I have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM set, that scrambles non
    > initialized memory. Thus, when the trace point was hit, it had junk for
    > the lock->name, and the machine crashed.
    
    Ah, nice catch. I think we should put at least the name in regardless.
    
    Ensure we at least initialize the trivial entries of the depmap so that
    they can be relied upon, even when lockdep itself decided to pack up and
    go home.
    
    [ Impact: fix lock tracing after lockdep warnings. ]
    
    Reported-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    LKML-Reference: <1239954049.23397.4156.camel@laptop>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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