[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 145/268] kernel/panic.c: turn off locks debug before releasing console lock

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jan 27 20:33:26 UTC 2016


4.2.8-ckt3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets at redhat.com>

commit 7625b3a0007decf2b135cb47ca67abc78a7b1bc1 upstream.

Commit 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the
logbuf printed out") introduced an unwanted bad unlock balance report when
panic() is called directly and not from OOPS (e.g.  from out_of_memory()).
The difference is that in case of OOPS we disable locks debug in
oops_enter() and on direct panic call nobody does that.

Fixes: 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets at redhat.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit at redhat.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi at huawei.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning at redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys at microsoft.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.cz>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ kamal: 4.2-stable prereq for
  8d91f8b printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/panic.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 4579dbb..4b150bc 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -152,8 +152,11 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 	 * We may have ended up stopping the CPU holding the lock (in
 	 * smp_send_stop()) while still having some valuable data in the console
 	 * buffer.  Try to acquire the lock then release it regardless of the
-	 * result.  The release will also print the buffers out.
+	 * result.  The release will also print the buffers out.  Locks debug
+	 * should be disabled to avoid reporting bad unlock balance when
+	 * panic() is not being callled from OOPS.
 	 */
+	debug_locks_off();
 	console_trylock();
 	console_unlock();
 
-- 
1.9.1





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