It is considered good form to lock the lock you claim to be nested in.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankho...@canonical.com>
---
diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index ea9ee45..7175447 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -2998,6 +2998,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockdep_init_map);
struct lock_class_key __lockdep_no_validate__;
+static int
+print_lock_nested_lock_not_held(struct task_struct *curr,
+ struct held_lock *lock,
+ struct lockdep_map *nest,
+ unsigned long ip)
+{
+ if (!debug_locks_off())
+ return 0;
+ if (debug_locks_silent)
+ return 0;
+
+ printk("\n");
+ printk("==================================\n");
+ printk("[ BUG: Nested lock was not taken ]\n");
+ print_kernel_ident();
+ printk("----------------------------------\n");
+
+ printk("%s/%d is trying to lock:\n", curr->comm, task_pid_nr(curr));
+ print_lock(lock);
+
+ printk("\nbut this task is not holding:\n");
+ printk("%s\n", nest->name);
+
+ printk("\nstack backtrace:\n");
+ dump_stack();
+
+ printk("\nother info that might help us debug this:\n");
+ lockdep_print_held_locks(curr);
+
+ printk("\nstack backtrace:\n");
+ dump_stack();
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int __lock_is_held(struct lockdep_map *lock);
+
/*
* This gets called for every mutex_lock*()/spin_lock*() operation.
* We maintain the dependency maps and validate the locking attempt:
@@ -3139,6 +3176,10 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock,
unsigned int subclass,
}
chain_key = iterate_chain_key(chain_key, id);
+ if (nest_lock && !__lock_is_held(nest_lock))
+ return print_lock_nested_lock_not_held(curr, hlock,
+ nest_lock, ip);
+
if (!validate_chain(curr, lock, hlock, chain_head, chain_key))
return 0;
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