Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] debugfs: annotate debugfs handlers vs. removal with lockdep

[Johannes Berg]

On Sat, 2023-12-02 at 15:37 +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> On (23/11/09 22:22), Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > When you take a lock in a debugfs handler but also try
> > to remove the debugfs file under that lock, things can
> > deadlock since the removal has to wait for all users
> > to finish.
> > 
> > Add lockdep annotations in debugfs_file_get()/_put()
> > to catch such issues.
> 
> So this triggers when I reset zram device (zsmalloc compiled with
> CONFIG_ZSMALLOC_STAT).

I shouldn't have put that into the rc, that was more or less an
accident. I think I'll do a revert.

> debugfs_create_file() and debugfs_remove_recursive() are called
> under zram->init_lock, and zsmalloc never calls into zram code.
> What I don't really get is where does the
> 	`debugfs::classes -> zram->init_lock`
> dependency come from?

"debugfs:classes" means a file is being accessed and "classes" is the
name, so that's 

static int zs_stats_size_show(struct seq_file *s, void *v)

which uses seq_file, so there we have a seq_file lock.

I think eventually the issue is that lockdep isn't telling the various
seq_file instances apart, and you have one that's removed under lock
(classes) and another one that's taking the lock (reset).

Anyway, I'll send a revert, don't think this is ready yet. I was fixing
the wireless debugfs lockdep and had used that to debug it.

johannes