The problem is found during iwlagn driver testing on v2.6.27-rc4-176-gb8e6c91 kernel, but it turns out to be a lockdep bug.
In our testing, we frequently load and unload the iwlagn driver
(>50 times). Then the MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES is reached (expected
behaviour?). The error message with the call trace is as below.
BUG: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!
turning off the locking correctness validator.
Pid: 4895, comm: iwlagn Not tainted 2.6.27-rc4 #13
The root cause for this oops is in add_lock_to_list() when
save_trace() fails due to MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES is reached,
entry->class is assigned but entry is never added into any lock list.
This makes the list_del_rcu() in zap_class() oops later when the
module is unloaded. This patch fixes the problem by assigning
entry->class after save_trace() returns success.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>