Commit 8e7795ef6b5fd117b22b87ea7d501de2526a25f7

Authored by Arjan van de Ven
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 5c81a4197d

[PATCH] lockdep: annotate USBFS

In usbfs's fs_remove_file() function, the aim is to remove a file or
directory from usbfs. This is done by first taking the i_mutex of the
parent directory of this file/dir via
  mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
and then to call either usbfs_rmdir() for a directory or usbfs_unlink()
for a file. Both these functions then take the i_mutex for the
to-be-removed object themselves:
  mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);

This is a classical parent->child locking order relationship that the VFS uses
all over the place; the VFS locking rule is "you need to take the parent
first".  This patch annotates the usbfs code to make this explicit and thus
informs the lockdep code that those two locks indeed have this relationship.

The rules for unlink that we already use in the VFS for unlink are to use
I_MUTEX_PARENT for the parent directory, and a normal mutex for the file
itself; this patch follows that convention.

Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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drivers/usb/core/inode.c
... ... @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
527 527 if (!parent || !parent->d_inode)
528 528 return;
529 529  
530   - mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
  530 + mutex_lock_nested(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
531 531 if (usbfs_positive(dentry)) {
532 532 if (dentry->d_inode) {
533 533 if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode))