Re: [rhashtable] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Wed Mar 11 2015 - 23:37:55 EST


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:29:24AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next.git master
>
> commit aa34a6cb0478842452bac58edb50d3ef9e178c92
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Wed Mar 11 09:43:48 2015 +1100
> Commit: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Wed Mar 11 16:36:21 2015 -0400

Thanks for the report. This patch should fix it.

--8<--
rhashtable: Add annotation to nested lock

Commit aa34a6cb0478842452bac58edb50d3ef9e178c92 ("rhashtable:
Add arbitrary rehash function") killed the annotation on the
nested lock which leads to bitching from lockdep.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 5f9af45..6ffc793 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ static int rhashtable_rehash_one(struct rhashtable *ht, unsigned old_hash)

new_bucket_lock = bucket_lock(new_tbl, new_hash);

- spin_lock(new_bucket_lock);
+ spin_lock_nested(new_bucket_lock, RHT_LOCK_NESTED);
head = rht_dereference_bucket(new_tbl->buckets[new_hash],
new_tbl, new_hash);

@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ static bool __rhashtable_insert(struct rhashtable *ht, struct rhash_head *obj,
tbl = rht_dereference_rcu(ht->future_tbl, ht);
if (tbl != old_tbl) {
hash = head_hashfn(ht, tbl, obj);
- spin_lock(bucket_lock(tbl, hash));
+ spin_lock_nested(bucket_lock(tbl, hash), RHT_LOCK_NESTED);
}

if (compare &&
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