On 12/08/2014 06:07 AM, Kirill Smelkov wrote:
> In mutex destroy code currently we pass to debug_check_no_locks_freed()
> 
>     [mem_from, mem_end)
> 
> address region. But debug_check_no_locks_freed() accepts
> 
>     mem_from, mem_*len*
> 
> i.e. second parameter is region length, not end address. And it was
> always so, starting from 2006 (fbb9ce95 "lockdep: core").
> 
> Fix it, or else on a mutex destroy we wrongly check
> much-wider-than-mutex region and can find not-yet-released other locks
> there and wrongly report BUGs on them.

Great catch, thanks!


Thanks,
Sasha
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