locking/lockdep: Add nest_lock integrity test
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 1 Mar 2017 15:23:30 +0000 (16:23 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:09:03 +0000 (17:09 +0200)
commit28eab3db727efb7ad4eb17aaa83df59c3d50e330
tree66e346a1ac92b6082b75934139b9d28ab4298975
parentd44e463c9460003f9606cc8ddbee76e49cd46783
locking/lockdep: Add nest_lock integrity test

[ Upstream commit 7fb4a2cea6b18dab56d609530d077f168169ed6b ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/locking/lockdep.c