This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled apparmor: fix lockdep warning when removing a namespace to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: apparmor-fix-lockdep-warning-when-removing-a-namespa.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b761fd684ba605a6bca1bab5cc7c8d2652ed2831 Author: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 6 03:39:55 2022 -0700 apparmor: fix lockdep warning when removing a namespace [ Upstream commit 9c4557efc558a68e4cd973490fd936d6e3414db8 ] Fix the following lockdep warning [ 1119.158984] ============================================ [ 1119.158988] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 1119.158996] 6.0.0-rc1+ #257 Tainted: G E N [ 1119.158999] -------------------------------------------- [ 1119.159001] bash/80100 is trying to acquire lock: [ 1119.159007] ffff88803e79b4a0 (&ns->lock/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: destroy_ns.part.0+0x43/0x140 [ 1119.159028] but task is already holding lock: [ 1119.159030] ffff8881009764a0 (&ns->lock/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: aa_remove_profiles+0x3f0/0x640 [ 1119.159040] other info that might help us debug this: [ 1119.159042] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 1119.159043] CPU0 [ 1119.159045] ---- [ 1119.159047] lock(&ns->lock/1); [ 1119.159051] lock(&ns->lock/1); [ 1119.159055] *** DEADLOCK *** Which is caused by an incorrect lockdep nesting notation Fixes: feb3c766a3ab ("apparmor: fix possible recursive lock warning in __aa_create_ns") Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy.c b/security/apparmor/policy.c index 4c010c9a6af1..fcf22577f606 100644 --- a/security/apparmor/policy.c +++ b/security/apparmor/policy.c @@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ ssize_t aa_remove_profiles(struct aa_ns *policy_ns, struct aa_label *subj, if (!name) { /* remove namespace - can only happen if fqname[0] == ':' */ - mutex_lock_nested(&ns->parent->lock, ns->level); + mutex_lock_nested(&ns->parent->lock, ns->parent->level); __aa_bump_ns_revision(ns); __aa_remove_ns(ns); mutex_unlock(&ns->parent->lock);