4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Waiman Long <[email protected]> commit 71492580571467fb7177aade19c18ce7486267f5 upstream. Tetsuo Handa had reported he saw an incorrect "downgrading a read lock" warning right after a previous lockdep warning. It is likely that the previous warning turned off lock debugging causing the lockdep to have inconsistency states leading to the lock downgrade warning. Fix that by add a check for debug_locks at the beginning of __lock_downgrade(). Debugged-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Reported-by: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c @@ -3314,6 +3314,9 @@ __lock_set_class(struct lockdep_map *loc unsigned int depth; int i; + if (unlikely(!debug_locks)) + return 0; + depth = curr->lockdep_depth; /* * This function is about (re)setting the class of a held lock,
