[PATCH] mqueue: nested locking annotation Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8130 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c index 0b5ecbe..554ac36 100644 --- a/ipc/mqueue.c +++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ if (IS_ERR(name)) return PTR_ERR(name); - mutex_lock(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex); + mutex_lock_nested(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex, + I_MUTEX_PARENT); dentry = lookup_one_len(name, mqueue_mnt->mnt_root, strlen(name)); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { err = PTR_ERR(dentry);