Re: [PATCH] fbcon: fix lockdep warning from fbcon_deinit()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Sep 13 2010 - 18:21:34 EST


On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 23:58:50 +0200
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch fixes the lockdep warning:
>
> [ 13.657164] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> [ 13.657169] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
> [ 13.657171] turning off the locking correctness validator.
> [ 13.657177] Pid: 622, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.36-rc3c #8
> [ 13.657180] Call Trace:
> [ 13.657194] [<c13002c8>] ? printk+0x18/0x20
> [ 13.657202] [<c1056cf6>] register_lock_class+0x336/0x350
> [ 13.657208] [<c1058bf9>] __lock_acquire+0x449/0x1180
> [ 13.657215] [<c1059997>] lock_acquire+0x67/0x80
> [ 13.657222] [<c1042bf1>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0x51/0x230
> [ 13.657227] [<c1042c23>] __cancel_work_timer+0x83/0x230
> [ 13.657231] [<c1042bf1>] ? __cancel_work_timer+0x51/0x230
> [ 13.657236] [<c10582b2>] ? mark_held_locks+0x62/0x80
> [ 13.657243] [<c10b3a2f>] ? kfree+0x7f/0xe0
> [ 13.657248] [<c105853c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x11c/0x160
> [ 13.657253] [<c105858b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> [ 13.657259] [<c117f4cd>] ? fbcon_deinit+0x16d/0x1e0
> [ 13.657263] [<c117f4cd>] ? fbcon_deinit+0x16d/0x1e0
> [ 13.657268] [<c1042dea>] cancel_work_sync+0xa/0x10
> [ 13.657272] [<c117f444>] fbcon_deinit+0xe4/0x1e0
> ...
>
> The warning is caused by trying to cancel an uninitialized work from
> fbcon_exit(). Fix it by adding a check for queue.func, similarly to
> other places in this code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> index 84f8423..7ccc967 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
> @@ -3508,7 +3508,7 @@ static void fbcon_exit(void)
> softback_buf = 0UL;
>
> for (i = 0; i < FB_MAX; i++) {
> - int pending;
> + int pending = 0;
>
> mapped = 0;
> info = registered_fb[i];
> @@ -3516,7 +3516,8 @@ static void fbcon_exit(void)
> if (info == NULL)
> continue;
>
> - pending = cancel_work_sync(&info->queue);
> + if (info->queue.func)
> + pending = cancel_work_sync(&info->queue);
> DPRINTK("fbcon: %s pending work\n", (pending ? "canceled" :
> "no"));
>

Well. It'd be better to just initialise the dang thing.

But all that code looks really hacky, fiddling around inside workqueue
internals as a driver-private state variable. Needs a rewrite, I suspect.

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