Ben Hutchings 98dcea0cfd tools/lib/lockdep: Reduce MAX_LOCK_DEPTH to avoid overflowing lock_chain/: Depth
liblockdep has been broken since commit 75dd602a51 ("lockdep: Fix
lock_chain::base size"), as that adds a check that MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is
within the range of lock_chain::depth and in liblockdep it is much
too large.

That should have resulted in a compiler error, but didn't because:

- the check uses ARRAY_SIZE(), which isn't yet defined in liblockdep
  so is assumed to be an (undeclared) function
- putting a function call inside a BUILD_BUG_ON() expression quietly
  turns it into some nonsense involving a variable-length array

It did produce a compiler warning, but I didn't notice because
liblockdep already produces too many warnings if -Wall is enabled
(which I'll fix shortly).

Even before that commit, which reduced lock_chain::depth from 8 bits
to 6, MAX_LOCK_DEPTH was too large.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for versions before 4.6, use a value of 255
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525130005.5947-3-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-05 09:28:03 +02:00
2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
2017-06-04 16:47:43 -07:00

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