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authorDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>2006-08-27 01:23:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-08-27 11:01:32 -0700
commit513627d7fec6fcb7b3d56ce355cb4d192c76b530 (patch)
tree3c1b86af152650c3ec5e725e8a41c42a14636512 /fs
parent4df46240a1312161e3c794f6ace50ef7eb5ff3d7 (diff)
[PATCH] fix up lockdep trace in fs/exec.c
This fixes the locking error noticed by lockdep: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] --------------------------------------------- init/1 is trying to acquire lock: (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a78a>] flush_old_exec+0x3ae/0x859 but task is already holding lock: (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a77a>] flush_old_exec+0x39e/0x859 other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by init/1: #0: (tasklist_lock){..--}, at: [<c047a76a>] flush_old_exec+0x38e/0x859 #1: (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a77a>] flush_old_exec+0x39e/0x859 stack backtrace: [<c04051e1>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x54/0xfd [<c040579d>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c04058b6>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c043b33a>] __lock_acquire+0x773/0x997 [<c043bacf>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6c [<c060630b>] _spin_lock+0x19/0x28 [<c047a78a>] flush_old_exec+0x3ae/0x859 [<c0498053>] load_elf_binary+0x4aa/0x1628 [<c0479cab>] search_binary_handler+0xa7/0x24e [<c047b577>] do_execve+0x15b/0x1f9 [<c04022b4>] sys_execve+0x29/0x4d [<c0403faf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index f7aabfeca03..54135df2a96 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ no_thread_group:
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
spin_lock(&oldsighand->siglock);
- spin_lock(&newsighand->siglock);
+ spin_lock_nested(&newsighand->siglock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
rcu_assign_pointer(current->sighand, newsighand);
recalc_sigpending();