lockdep: Make print_lock() robust against concurrent release
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:11:57 +0000 (17:11 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 17 Apr 2015 07:42:14 +0000 (09:42 +0200)
commitd7bc3197b41e0a1af6677e83f8736e93a1575ce0
tree8b9dbb106e7c287182b3812c0469a1fea8e46c95
parent6a16dda86ebbcfe690c753c3fb469b4f9ad5a5ef
lockdep: Make print_lock() robust against concurrent release

During sysrq's show-held-locks command it is possible that
hlock_class() returns NULL for a given lock. The result is then (after
the warning):

|BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000001c
|IP: [<c1088145>] get_usage_chars+0x5/0x100
|Call Trace:
| [<c1088263>] print_lock_name+0x23/0x60
| [<c1576b57>] print_lock+0x5d/0x7e
| [<c1088314>] lockdep_print_held_locks+0x74/0xe0
| [<c1088652>] debug_show_all_locks+0x132/0x1b0
| [<c1315c48>] sysrq_handle_showlocks+0x8/0x10

This *might* happen because the thread on the other CPU drops the lock
after we are looking ->lockdep_depth and ->held_locks points no longer
to a lock that is held.

The fix here is to simply ignore it and continue.

Reported-by: Andreas Messerschmid <andreas@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/lockdep.c