3.10.0-rc4: jffs2: Possible circular locking dependency detected

Mark Jackson mpfj-list at newflow.co.uk
Fri Jun 21 08:58:11 EDT 2013


On 20/06/13 13:57, Mark Jackson wrote:
> Just mounted a JFFS2 partition (held in NOR flash on a custom AM335x
> CPU board), and I always get the following:-
> 
> [    3.864244]
> [    3.865851] ======================================================
> [    3.872359] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> [    3.878968] 3.10.0-rc4-00172-gf31c62e-dirty #249 Not tainted
> [    3.884926] -------------------------------------------------------
> [    3.891526] rcS/507 is trying to acquire lock:
> [    3.896206]  (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<c00b42c8>] might_fault+0x3c/0x94
> [    3.903684]
> [    3.903684] but task is already holding lock:
> [    3.909826]  (&f->sem){+.+.+.}, at: [<c016f208>] jffs2_readdir+0x40/0x1b0
> [    3.917021]
> [    3.917021] which lock already depends on the new lock.

Looks like I reported something similar earlier this year:-

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2013-February/045888.html

And I also found this going back to 3.0.18:-

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg07617.html





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