lockdep splat from ioctl and mmap fops sharing lock

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 09:58:50 EST


Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> fb_mmap() is called under mmap_sem and acquires fb_info->lock.
>
> Since 3e680aae4e53ab "fb: convert lock/unlock_kernel() into local fb
> mutex", fb_ioctl() takes fb_info->lock and does copy_to/from_user()
> under it, which in turn might acquire mmap_sem.

More affected drivers:

agp_ioctl() doing usercopy under agp_fe.agp_mutex
agp_mmap() taking agp_fe.agp_mutex under mmap_sem

dv1394_write() doing usercopy under video->mtx
dv1394_mmap() taking video->mtx under mmap_sem

raw1394_ioctl() doing usercopy under fi->state_mutex
raw1394_mmap() taking fi->state_mutex under mmap_sem

Hannes
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