lockdep warning when logging in with ssh

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Sep 10 15:23:48 CDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 02:59:31PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> I see this when I attempt to login via ssh.  I do not see it if I login on
> the serial console.  I recall seeing it earlier when chasing another patch but
> cannot recall the kernel version.

It's the shmem code that is broken - instantiating an inode while
holding the mmap_sem inverts lock orders all over the place,
especially in the security subsystem....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com



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