[RFC lockdep 2/4] lockdep: Allow wait context checking with empty ->held_locks

[Boqun Feng]

Currently, the guard for !curr->lockdep_depth in check_wait_context() is
unnecessary, because the code will work well without it. Moreover, there
are cases that we will miss if we skip for curr->lockdep_depth == 0. For
example:

	<in hardirq context>
	some_irq_handler():
	  // curr->lockdep_depth == 0
	  mutex_lock(&some_mutex):
	    check_wait_context() // skip the check!

Clearly, it's a bug, but due to the skip for !curr->lockdep_depth, we
cannot detect it in check_wait_context().

Therefore, remove the !curr->lockdep_depth checks and add comments on
why it's still working without it. The idea is that if we currently
don't hold any lock, then the current context is the only one we should
use to check.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index c1418b47f625..d4fd52b22804 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -4508,7 +4508,7 @@ static int check_wait_context(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *next)
 	short curr_inner;
 	int depth;
 
-	if (!curr->lockdep_depth || !next_inner || next->trylock)
+	if (!next_inner || next->trylock)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!next_outer)
@@ -4516,6 +4516,10 @@ static int check_wait_context(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *next)
 
 	/*
 	 * Find start of current irq_context..
+	 *
+	 * Note: if curr->lockdep_depth == 0, we have depth == 0 after the
+	 * "depth++" below, and will skip the second for loop, i.e. using
+	 * the current task context as the curr_inner.
 	 */
 	for (depth = curr->lockdep_depth - 1; depth >= 0; depth--) {
 		struct held_lock *prev = curr->held_locks + depth;
-- 
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