On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 375b611e60 ("sysfs: remove sysfs_buffer->ops") introduced
> sysfs_file_ops() which determines the associated file operation of a
> given sysfs_dirent. As file ops access should be protected by an
> active reference, the new function includes a lockdep assertion on the
> sysfs_dirent; unfortunately, I forgot to take attr->ignore_lockdep
> flag into account and the lockdep assertion trips spuriously for files
> which opt out from active reference lockdep checking.
>
> # cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/authorized
>
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 540 at /work/os/work/fs/sysfs/file.c:79
> sysfs_file_ops+0x4e/0x60()
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 1 PID: 540 Comm: cat Not tainted 3.11.0-work+ #3
> Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> 0000000000000009 ffff880016205c08 ffffffff81ca0131 0000000000000000
> ffff880016205c40 ffffffff81096d0d ffff8800166cb898 ffff8800166f6f60
> ffffffff8125a220 ffff880011ab1ec0 ffff88000aff0c78 ffff880016205c50
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81ca0131>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
> [<ffffffff81096d0d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
> [<ffffffff81096dea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> [<ffffffff8125994e>] sysfs_file_ops+0x4e/0x60
> [<ffffffff8125a274>] sysfs_open_file+0x54/0x300
> [<ffffffff811df612>] do_dentry_open.isra.17+0x182/0x280
> [<ffffffff811df820>] finish_open+0x30/0x40
> [<ffffffff811f0623>] do_last+0x503/0xd90
> [<ffffffff811f0f6b>] path_openat+0xbb/0x6d0
> [<ffffffff811f23ba>] do_filp_open+0x3a/0x90
> [<ffffffff811e09a9>] do_sys_open+0x129/0x220
> [<ffffffff811e0abe>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
> [<ffffffff81caf3c2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> ---[ end trace aa48096b111dafdb ]---
>
> Rename fs/sysfs/dir.c::ignore_lockdep() to sysfs_ignore_lockdep() and
> move it to fs/sysfs/sysfs.h and make sysfs_file_ops() skip lockdep
> assertion if sysfs_ignore_lockdep() is true.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org>
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