[2.6.21.4]: possible recursive locking detected

From: Tomasz Kłoczko
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 10:04:48 EST



I found below call trace today morning in dmesg output on one of my test
computer:

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[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
2.6.21.4-2.1 #1
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usb-storage/1806 is trying to acquire lock:
(&(us->dev_mutex)){--..}, at: [<c05f28a2>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

but task is already holding lock:
(&(us->dev_mutex)){--..}, at: [<c05f28a2>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by usb-storage/1806:
#0: (&(us->dev_mutex)){--..}, at: [<c05f28a2>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f

stack backtrace:
[<c04064d4>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
[<c0406a7f>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[<c0406afa>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
[<c043fb88>] __lock_acquire+0x116/0xb4b
[<c044097e>] lock_acquire+0x56/0x6f
[<c05f2721>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe5/0x24a
[<c05f28a2>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
[<f89981d3>] storage_pre_reset+0xe/0x10 [usb_storage]
[<c0552e3d>] usb_reset_composite_device+0x9c/0x124
[<f8996888>] usb_stor_port_reset+0x34/0x57 [usb_storage]
[<f899778e>] usb_stor_invoke_transport+0x255/0x293 [usb_storage]
[<f89967b9>] usb_stor_transparent_scsi_command+0x8/0xa [usb_storage]
[<f899833e>] usb_stor_control_thread+0x136/0x1b7 [usb_storage]
[<c0435edf>] kthread+0xb3/0xdc
[<c0406177>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
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usb 1-1.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5

kloczek
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Tomasz Kłoczko, sys adm @zie.pg.gda.pl|*e-mail: kloczek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*