On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 13:54 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> Currently the sock queue's spin locks get their lockdep
> classes by the default init_spin_lock() initializer:
> all socket families get - usually, see below - a single
> class for rx, another specific class for tx, etc.
> This can lead to false positive lockdep splat, as
> reported by Andrey.
> Moreover there are two separate initialization points
> for the sock queues, one in sk_clone_lock() and one
> in sock_init_data(), so that e.g. the rx queue lock
> can get one of two possible, different classes, depending
> on the socket being cloned or not.
> This change tries to address the above, setting explicitly
> a per address family lockdep class for each queue's
> spinlock. Also, move the duplicated initialization code to a
> single location.

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>


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