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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2018-11-03 17:53:09 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2018-11-10 09:54:28 -0800
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parentacpi, nfit: Fix ARS overflow continuation (diff)
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Revert "acpi, nfit: Further restrict userspace ARS start requests"
The following lockdep splat results from acquiring the init_mutex in acpi_nfit_clear_to_send(): WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected lt-daxdev-error/7216 is trying to acquire lock: 00000000f694db15 (&acpi_desc->init_mutex){+.+.}, at: acpi_nfit_clear_to_send+0x27/0x80 [nfit] but task is already holding lock: 00000000182298f2 (&nvdimm_bus->reconfig_mutex){+.+.}, at: __nd_ioctl+0x457/0x610 [libnvdimm] which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&nvdimm_bus->reconfig_mutex){+.+.}: nvdimm_badblocks_populate+0x41/0x150 [libnvdimm] nd_region_notify+0x95/0xb0 [libnvdimm] nd_device_notify+0x40/0x50 [libnvdimm] ars_complete+0x7f/0xd0 [nfit] acpi_nfit_scrub+0xbb/0x410 [nfit] process_one_work+0x22b/0x5c0 worker_thread+0x3c/0x390 kthread+0x11e/0x140 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 -> #0 (&acpi_desc->init_mutex){+.+.}: __mutex_lock+0x83/0x980 acpi_nfit_clear_to_send+0x27/0x80 [nfit] __nd_ioctl+0x474/0x610 [libnvdimm] nd_ioctl+0xa4/0xb0 [libnvdimm] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa5/0x6e0 ksys_ioctl+0x70/0x80 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x16/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x60/0x210 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe New infrastructure is needed to be able to perform this check without acquiring the lock. Fixes: 594861215c83 ("acpi, nfit: Further restrict userspace ARS start") Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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