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sysfs: get rid of some lockdep false positives

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This patch (as1554) fixes a lockdep false-positive report.  The
problem arises because lockdep is unable to deal with the
tree-structured locks created by the device core and sysfs.

This particular problem involves a sysfs attribute method that
unregisters itself, not from the device it was called for, but from a
descendant device.  Lockdep doesn't understand the distinction and
reports a possible deadlock, even though the operation is safe.

This is the sort of thing that would normally be handled by using a
nested lock annotation; unfortunately it's not feasible to do that
here.  There's no sensible way to tell sysfs when attribute removal
occurs in the context of a parent attribute method.

As a workaround, the patch adds a new flag to struct attribute
telling sysfs not to inform lockdep when it acquires a readlock on a
sysfs_dirent instance for the attribute.  The readlock is still
acquired, but lockdep doesn't know about it and hence does not
complain about impossible deadlock scenarios.

Also added are macros for static initialization of attribute
structures with the ignore_lockdep flag set.  The three offending
attributes in the USB subsystem are converted to use the new macros.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Alan Stern 2012-05-14 13:30:03 -04:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent c836d0ab70
commit 356c05d58a
4 changed files with 44 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -504,6 +504,9 @@ ssize_t device_store_int(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
#define DEVICE_INT_ATTR(_name, _mode, _var) \
struct dev_ext_attribute dev_attr_##_name = \
{ __ATTR(_name, _mode, device_show_int, device_store_int), &(_var) }
#define DEVICE_ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = \
__ATTR_IGNORE_LOCKDEP(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
extern int device_create_file(struct device *device,
const struct device_attribute *entry);