Re: [PATCH net 1/2] vhost: use mutex_lock_nested() in vhost_dev_lock_vqs()
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-01-24 21:38:33
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-01-24 21:38:33
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From: Jason Wang <redacted> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:27:25 +0800
We used to call mutex_lock() in vhost_dev_lock_vqs() which tries to
hold mutexes of all virtqueues. This may confuse lockdep to report a
possible deadlock because of trying to hold locks belong to same
class. Switch to use mutex_lock_nested() to avoid false positive.
Fixes: 6b1e6cc7855b0 ("vhost: new device IOTLB API")
Reported-by: syzbot+dbb7c1161485e61b0241@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>Michael, I see you ACK'd this, meaning that you're OK with these two fixes going via my net tree? Thanks.