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epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
authorNelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:13:14 +0000 (17:13 -0700)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:35:28 +0000 (15:35 -0400)
commitbfaa681a1fa24010d0a26704429e4cc2dff793a4
treeae50f61431fb68d30bdd5d7d4f118d588aef0ab2
parent5fcd6584e3862639a6941551b6ae9eed40cde900
epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings

commit d8805e633e054c816c47cb6e727c81f156d9253d upstream.

epoll can acquire recursively acquire ep->mtx on multiple "struct
eventpoll"s at once in the case where one epoll fd is monitoring another
epoll fd.  This is perfectly OK, since we're careful about the lock
ordering, but it causes spurious lockdep warnings.  Annotate the recursion
using mutex_lock_nested, and add a comment explaining the nesting rules
for good measure.

Recent versions of systemd are triggering this, and it can also be
demonstrated with the following trivial test program:

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int main(void) {
   int e1, e2;
   struct epoll_event evt = {
       .events = EPOLLIN
   };

   e1 = epoll_create1(0);
   e2 = epoll_create1(0);
   epoll_ctl(e1, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, e2, &evt);
   return 0;
}
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Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
fs/eventpoll.c