Re: Fwd: [rhashtable] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:570 mutex_lock_nested()

From: Thomas Graf
Date: Tue Jan 13 2015 - 03:41:33 EST


On 01/13/15 at 03:50pm, Ying Xue wrote:
> On 01/12/2015 08:42 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > On 01/12/15 at 09:38am, Ying Xue wrote:
> >> Hi Thomas,
> >>
> >> I am really unable to see where is wrong leading to below warning
> >> complaints. Can you please help me check it?
> >
> > Not sure yet. It's not your patch that introduced the issue though.
> > It merely exposed the affected code path.
> >
> > Just wondering, did you test with CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES enabled?
> >
> >
>
> After I enable above option, I don't find similar complaints during my
> testing.

I can't reproduce it in my KVM box either so far. It looks like a
mutex_lock() on an uninitialized mutex or use after free but I can't
find such a code path so far.
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