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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2017-03-01 16:23:30 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-03-02 09:00:38 +0100
commit7fb4a2cea6b18dab56d609530d077f168169ed6b (patch)
tree4b0e6b73918486e175841c1deb6ff72811add002 /kernel/locking
parent2b232e0c3b3a09f3e33750aa20e314f1b80e5361 (diff)
downloadlinux-7fb4a2cea6b18dab56d609530d077f168169ed6b.tar.gz
locking/lockdep: Add nest_lock integrity test
Boqun reported that hlock->references can overflow. Add a debug test
for that to generate a clear error when this happens.

Without this, lockdep is likely to report a mysterious failure on
unlock.

Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/lockdep.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 9812e5dd409e..c0ee8607c11e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -3260,10 +3260,17 @@ static int __lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
 	if (depth) {
 		hlock = curr->held_locks + depth - 1;
 		if (hlock->class_idx == class_idx && nest_lock) {
-			if (hlock->references)
+			if (hlock->references) {
+				/*
+				 * Check: unsigned int references:12, overflow.
+				 */
+				if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(hlock->references == (1 << 12)-1))
+					return 0;
+
 				hlock->references++;
-			else
+			} else {
 				hlock->references = 2;
+			}
 
 			return 1;
 		}