The patch titled Subject: kernel/module.c: do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not held has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was module-do-a-warn_on_once-for-assert-module-mutex-not-held.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/module.c: do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not held When running with lockdep enabled, I triggered the WARN_ON() in the module code that asserts when module_mutex or rcu_read_lock_sched are not held. The issue I have is that this can also be called from the dump_stack() code, causing us to enter an infinite loop... ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 ffff880215e8fa70 ffff880215e8fa70 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8fac0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab 0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9 [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 ffff880215e8f7a0 ffff880215e8f7a0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f7f0 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab 0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9 [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 nf_conntrack_ipv6 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc3-test-00013-g501c2375253c #14 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 ffff880215e8f4d0 ffff880215e8f4d0 ffffffff812fc8e3 0000000000000000 ffffffff81d3e55b ffff880215e8f520 ffffffff8104fc88 ffffffff8104fcab 0000000915e88300 0000000000000046 ffffffffa019b29a 0000000000000001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812fc8e3>] dump_stack+0x67/0x90 [<ffffffff8104fc88>] __warn+0xcb/0xe9 [<ffffffff8104fcab>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0x5/0x1f ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/module.c:268 module_assert_mutex_or_preempt+0x3c/0x3e [...] Which gives us rather useless information. Worse yet, there's some race that causes this, and I seldom trigger it, so I have no idea what happened. This would not be an issue if that warning was a WARN_ON_ONCE(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160712091550.30ddfff7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/module.c~module-do-a-warn_on_once-for-assert-module-mutex-not-held kernel/module.c --- a/kernel/module.c~module-do-a-warn_on_once-for-assert-module-mutex-not-held +++ a/kernel/module.c @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ static void module_assert_mutex_or_preem if (unlikely(!debug_locks)) return; - WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && + WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() && !lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)); #endif } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html