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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2012-05-14 13:30:03 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-05-14 12:19:56 -0700
commit356c05d58af05d582e634b54b40050c73609617b (patch)
tree49fd49203678cee0e7650f1b4d55aa3f53527575 /fs/sysfs
parentc836d0ab70acf7b7bd2b698278e8abae9e6d9978 (diff)
sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives
This patch (as1554) fixes a lockdep false-positive report. The problem arises because lockdep is unable to deal with the tree-structured locks created by the device core and sysfs. This particular problem involves a sysfs attribute method that unregisters itself, not from the device it was called for, but from a descendant device. Lockdep doesn't understand the distinction and reports a possible deadlock, even though the operation is safe. This is the sort of thing that would normally be handled by using a nested lock annotation; unfortunately it's not feasible to do that here. There's no sensible way to tell sysfs when attribute removal occurs in the context of a parent attribute method. As a workaround, the patch adds a new flag to struct attribute telling sysfs not to inform lockdep when it acquires a readlock on a sysfs_dirent instance for the attribute. The readlock is still acquired, but lockdep doesn't know about it and hence does not complain about impossible deadlock scenarios. Also added are macros for static initialization of attribute structures with the ignore_lockdep flag set. The three offending attributes in the USB subsystem are converted to use the new macros. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c31
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 24fa995f031..e6bb9b2a4cb 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -132,6 +132,24 @@ static void sysfs_unlink_sibling(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
rb_erase(&sd->s_rb, &sd->s_parent->s_dir.children);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+
+/* Test for attributes that want to ignore lockdep for read-locking */
+static bool ignore_lockdep(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+ return sysfs_type(sd) == SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR &&
+ sd->s_attr.attr->ignore_lockdep;
+}
+
+#else
+
+static inline bool ignore_lockdep(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
+#endif
+
/**
* sysfs_get_active - get an active reference to sysfs_dirent
* @sd: sysfs_dirent to get an active reference to
@@ -155,15 +173,17 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_active(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
return NULL;
t = atomic_cmpxchg(&sd->s_active, v, v + 1);
- if (likely(t == v)) {
- rwsem_acquire_read(&sd->dep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_);
- return sd;
- }
+ if (likely(t == v))
+ break;
if (t < 0)
return NULL;
cpu_relax();
}
+
+ if (likely(!ignore_lockdep(sd)))
+ rwsem_acquire_read(&sd->dep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_);
+ return sd;
}
/**
@@ -180,7 +200,8 @@ void sysfs_put_active(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
if (unlikely(!sd))
return;
- rwsem_release(&sd->dep_map, 1, _RET_IP_);
+ if (likely(!ignore_lockdep(sd)))
+ rwsem_release(&sd->dep_map, 1, _RET_IP_);
v = atomic_dec_return(&sd->s_active);
if (likely(v != SD_DEACTIVATED_BIAS))
return;