On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:34:17 +0100 David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lockdep noticed that there is chance for a deadlock if we have
> concurrent mmap, concurrent read, and the addition/removal of a
> callback.
> 
> As nicely explained by Boqun:
> 
> "
> Lockdep warned about the above sequences because rw_semaphore is a fair
> read-write lock, and the following can cause a deadlock:
> 
>       TASK 1                  TASK 2          TASK 3
>       ======                  ======          ======
>       down_write(mmap_lock);
>                               down_read(vmcore_cb_rwsem)
>                                               down_write(vmcore_cb_rwsem); // 
> blocked
>       down_read(vmcore_cb_rwsem); // cannot get the lock because of the 
> fairness
>                               down_read(mmap_lock); // blocked

I'm wondering about cc:stable.  It's hard to believe that this is
likely to be observed in real life.  But the ongoing reports of lockdep
splats will be irritating.


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