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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index 33ac2b1..549771a 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ static void vhost_dev_lock_vqs(struct vhost_dev *d)
{
int i = 0;
for (i = 0; i < d->nvqs; ++i)
- mutex_lock(&d->vqs[i]->mutex);
+ mutex_lock_nested(&d->vqs[i]->mutex, i);
}
static void vhost_dev_unlock_vqs(struct vhost_dev *d)
--
2.7.4
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