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SubjectProblem with WARN_ON in mutex_trylock() and rxrpc
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Hi Davidlohr,

commit a0855d24fc22d49cdc25664fb224caee16998683 ("locking/mutex: Complain upon
mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts") is a bit of a problem for rxrpc, though
nothing that shouldn't be reasonably easy to solve, I think.

What happens is that rxrpc_new_incoming_call(), which is called in softirq
context, calls mutex_trylock() to prelock a new incoming call:

/* Lock the call to prevent rxrpc_kernel_send/recv_data() and
* sendmsg()/recvmsg() inconveniently stealing the mutex once the
* notification is generated.
*
* The BUG should never happen because the kernel should be well
* behaved enough not to access the call before the first notification
* event and userspace is prevented from doing so until the state is
* appropriate.
*/
if (!mutex_trylock(&call->user_mutex))
BUG();

before publishing it. This used to work fine, but now there are big splashy
warnings every time a new call comes in.

No one else can see the lock at this point, but I need to lock it so that
lockdep doesn't complain later. However, I can't lock it in the preallocator
- again because that upsets lockdep.

David

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