On 05/07/2012 07:00 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: >> So whatever your trace is showing, that's not the bug. Something more >> complicated would appear to be afoot. > > Oddly enough, tty != tty->link, but the lockdep warning triggers. > > Any idea why it might happen? I think so, both locks are the same lockdep class. So lockdep thinks it is the same lock. However this is a false positive. I guess we need mutex_lock_nested... regards, -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html