From: Eric Sesterhenn Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:33:12 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bfs: fix Lockdep warning X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1558182f651798164418abf53f76786da0ea4a6f;p=linux-2.6 bfs: fix Lockdep warning This fixes: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.27-rc5-00283-g70bb089 #68 --------------------------------------------- touch/6855 is trying to acquire lock: (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [] bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c but task is already holding lock: (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [] bfs_create+0x45/0x187 other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by touch/6855: #0: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#5){--..}, at: [] do_filp_open+0x10b/0x62f #1: (&info->bfs_lock){--..}, at: [] bfs_create+0x45/0x187 stack backtrace: Pid: 6855, comm: touch Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00283-g70bb089 #68 [] validate_chain+0x458/0x9f4 [] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd [] __lock_acquire+0x666/0x6e0 [] lock_acquire+0x5b/0x77 [] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [] mutex_lock_nested+0xbc/0x234 [] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [] bfs_delete_inode+0x9e/0x18c [] ? bfs_delete_inode+0x0/0x18c [] generic_delete_inode+0x94/0xfe [] generic_drop_inode+0x12/0x12f [] iput+0x4b/0x4e [] bfs_create+0x163/0x187 [] vfs_create+0xa6/0x114 [] do_filp_open+0x1ad/0x62f [] ? native_sched_clock+0x82/0x96 [] ? _spin_unlock+0x27/0x3c [] ? alloc_fd+0xbf/0xc9 [] ? sub_preempt_count+0x9d/0xab [] ? alloc_fd+0xbf/0xc9 [] do_sys_open+0x42/0xb8 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10 [] sys_open+0x1e/0x26 [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31 ======================= The problem is that we don't unlock the bfs->lock mutex before calling iput (we do in the other cases). Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn Cc: Tigran Aivazian Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/bfs/dir.c b/fs/bfs/dir.c index 87ee5ccee3..ed8feb052d 100644 --- a/fs/bfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/bfs/dir.c @@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ static int bfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode, inode->i_ino); if (err) { inode_dec_link_count(inode); - iput(inode); mutex_unlock(&info->bfs_lock); + iput(inode); return err; } mutex_unlock(&info->bfs_lock);