From 6d740cd5b18bc8128e70f98cfde8c74ebd21cea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:58:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] lockdep: annotate BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION >============================================= >[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] >2.6.19-1.2909.fc7 #1 >--------------------------------------------- >anaconda/587 is trying to acquire lock: > (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 > >but task is already holding lock: > (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 > >other info that might help us debug this: >1 lock held by anaconda/587: > #0: (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 > >stack backtrace: > [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f > [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 > [] dump_stack+0x16/0x18 > [] __lock_acquire+0x116/0xa09 > [] lock_acquire+0x56/0x6f > [] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe5/0x24a > [] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24 > [] blkdev_ioctl+0x600/0x76d > [] block_ioctl+0x1b/0x1f > [] do_ioctl+0x22/0x68 > [] vfs_ioctl+0x252/0x265 > [] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x63 > [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Annotate BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION's bd_mutex locking and add a little comment clarifying the bd_mutex locking, because I confused myself and initially thought the lock order was wrong too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- block/ioctl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c index e3f5eb9882cf..e06dbe9bc858 100644 --- a/block/ioctl.c +++ b/block/ioctl.c @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user fsync_bdev(bdevp); invalidate_bdev(bdevp, 0); - mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); + mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1); delete_partition(disk, part); mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); mutex_unlock(&bdevp->bd_mutex); -- cgit v1.2.3