> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Kees Cook > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 10:22 PM > To: Lofstedt, Marta <[email protected]> > Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>; [email protected]; > Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>; Colin Cross <[email protected]>; > Luck, Tony <[email protected]>; Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:00 AM, Lofstedt, Marta <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Chris Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 10:53 AM > >> To: Kees Cook <[email protected]> > >> Cc: [email protected]; Anton Vorontsov > <[email protected]>; > >> Colin Cross <[email protected]>; Luck, Tony <[email protected]>; > >> Lofstedt, Marta <[email protected]>; Namhyung Kim > >> <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode > >> locks > >> > >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 04:20:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > >> > Lockdep complains about a possible deadlock between mount and > >> > unlink (which is technically impossible), but fixing this improves > >> > possible future multiple-backend support, and keeps locking in the right > order. > >> > >> I have merged your for-next/pstore branch (which included this patch, > >> so I hope I chose correctly ;) into our CI. That should exercise it > >> on the machines that we originally found the lockdep splat. > > That's the branch, yes, thanks! > > >> > >> Thanks, > >> -Chris > >> > > > > Chris, I tested this on drm-tip after you merged for-next/pstore. > > EFI_VARS_PSTORE is enabled. > > I deliberately cause kernel panic and reboot, but unfortunately that kernel > doesn't reboot properly. On display I see a bunch of: > > "Cleaning orphaned inode ...", but then kernel boot is stuck. > > I run this on a BDW NUCi5, which I have been using successfully with > pstore-efi for weeks. > > Fortunately I had some other pstore enabled kernels, so if I clean out > /sys/fs/pstore/* with one of them I can boot above kernel again. > > Hrmm... if you isolate this down to a different pstore issue, please let me > know. I haven't seen filesystem corruption in my tests yet. :P > > Thanks for testing! > > -Kees
Hi Kees, I can't reproduce above issue with your: " git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v4.12-rc1 for you to fetch changes up to 3a7d2fd16c57a1ef47dc2891171514231c9c7c6e: pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks (2017-04-27 20:35:34 -0700)" BR, Marta > > -- > Kees Cook > Pixel Security
