Hi all, While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next kernel, I've stumbled on the following spew: [ 6172.870045] ============================================= [ 6172.870045] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] [ 6172.870045] 3.18.0-rc1-next-20141023-sasha-00036-g4dcabd5 #1415 Not tainted [ 6172.870045] --------------------------------------------- [ 6172.870045] trinity-c55/12752 is trying to acquire lock: [ 6172.870045] (rename_lock){+.+...}, at: d_walk (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 fs/dcache.c:1035) [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] but task is already holding lock: [ 6172.870045] (rename_lock){+.+...}, at: d_walk (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 fs/dcache.c:1035) [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] other info that might help us debug this: [ 6172.900904] FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure [ 6172.870045] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] CPU0 [ 6172.870045] ---- [ 6172.870045] lock(rename_lock); [ 6172.870045] lock(rename_lock); [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] 1 lock held by trinity-c55/12752: [ 6172.870045] #0: (rename_lock){+.+...}, at: d_walk (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 fs/dcache.c:1035) [ 6172.870045] [ 6172.870045] stack backtrace: [ 6172.870045] CPU: 1 PID: 12752 Comm: trinity-c55 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc1-next-20141023-sasha-00036-g4dcabd5 #1415 [ 6172.870045] ffff88070945b000 0000000000000000 ffffffffb6312fd0 ffff8806d69ff728 [ 6172.870045] ffffffffa8ff75ca 0000000000000011 ffffffffb6312fd0 ffff8806d69ff828 [ 6172.870045] ffffffff9f3a012b ffff880107fd76c0 ffff880107fd76c0 0000000000000001 [ 6172.870045] Call Trace: [ 6172.870045] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52) [ 6172.870045] validate_chain.isra.10 (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2134) [ 6172.870045] ? kvm_clock_read (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:90 arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c:86) [ 6172.870045] ? sched_clock_cpu (kernel/sched/clock.c:311) [ 6172.870045] __lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3184) [ 6172.870045] lock_acquire (./arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:14 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3604) [ 6172.870045] ? d_walk (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 fs/dcache.c:1035) [ 6172.870045] ? put_lock_stats.isra.7 (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:254) [ 6172.870045] _raw_spin_lock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151) [ 6172.870045] ? d_walk (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 fs/dcache.c:1035) [ 6172.870045] d_walk (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 fs/dcache.c:1035) [ 6172.870045] ? d_walk (fs/dcache.c:1087) [ 6172.870045] ? d_drop (fs/dcache.c:1336) [ 6172.870045] ? select_collect (fs/dcache.c:1323) [ 6172.870045] d_invalidate (fs/dcache.c:1381) [ 6172.870045] lookup_fast (fs/namei.c:1440) [ 6172.870045] ? _raw_spin_unlock (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:98 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:183) [ 6172.870045] ? lockref_put_or_lock (lib/lockref.c:135) [ 6172.870045] ? dput (fs/dcache.c:626) [ 6172.870045] walk_component (fs/namei.c:1545) [ 6172.870045] ? security_inode_permission (security/security.c:573) [ 6172.870045] ? __inode_permission (fs/namei.c:418) [ 6172.870045] link_path_walk (fs/namei.c:1805) [ 6172.870045] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check (lib/smp_processor_id.c:63) [ 6172.870045] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2559 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2601) [ 6172.870045] ? getname_flags (fs/namei.c:145) [ 6172.870045] path_lookupat (fs/namei.c:1956) [ 6172.870045] ? kmem_cache_alloc (include/linux/rcupdate.h:479 include/trace/events/kmem.h:53 mm/slub.c:2463) [ 6172.870045] ? getname_flags (fs/namei.c:145) [ 6172.870045] filename_lookup (fs/namei.c:2000) [ 6172.870045] user_path_at_empty (fs/namei.c:2151) [ 6172.870045] ? preempt_count_sub (kernel/sched/core.c:2662) [ 6172.870045] user_path_at (fs/namei.c:2162) [ 6172.870045] vfs_fstatat (fs/stat.c:106) [ 6172.870045] SYSC_newlstat (fs/stat.c:284) [ 6172.870045] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1598) [ 6172.870045] ? tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:518) [ 6172.870045] SyS_newlstat (fs/stat.c:277) [ 6172.870045] tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529) The machine proceeded to actually lock up, so this isn't a false positive. Thanks, Sasha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html