Commit 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out") introduced unwanted bad unlock balance report when panic() is called directly and not from OOPS (e.g. from out_of_memory()). The difference is that in case of OOPS we disable locks debug in oops_enter() and on direct panic call nobody does that.
Fixes: 08d78658f393 ("panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out") Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.hu...@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuzn...@redhat.com> Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatay...@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz> Cc: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <pra...@redhat.com> Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexi...@huawei.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenn...@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <k...@microsoft.com> Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.cz> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasu...@jp.fujitsu.com> --- The original plan was to replace this patch with less hackish implementation from Jan's "printk: Softlockup avoidance" series but it seems it didn't get merged in 4.4 so we still need some band-aid for now. --- kernel/panic.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c index 4579dbb..4b150bc 100644 --- a/kernel/panic.c +++ b/kernel/panic.c @@ -152,8 +152,11 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...) * We may have ended up stopping the CPU holding the lock (in * smp_send_stop()) while still having some valuable data in the console * buffer. Try to acquire the lock then release it regardless of the - * result. The release will also print the buffers out. + * result. The release will also print the buffers out. Locks debug + * should be disabled to avoid reporting bad unlock balance when + * panic() is not being callled from OOPS. */ + debug_locks_off(); console_trylock(); console_unlock(); -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/