[Devel] [PATCH vz10 13/24] dm-tracking: initialize dmt->lock with spin_lock_init()
Pavel Tikhomirov
ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com
Fri Jul 24 16:15:52 MSK 2026
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>
On 7/6/26 12:59, Konstantin Khorenko wrote:
> struct dm_tracking is allocated with kzalloc() and its embedded
> spinlock dmt->lock is taken in dmt_status()/tracking_clear()/
> tracking_get_next()/dmt_cmd(), but dmt_ctr() never runs
> spin_lock_init() on it (only ctl_mutex is initialized). A zero-filled
> spinlock has no static lockdep key, so on the first spin_lock_irq() a
> lockdep kernel prints:
>
> INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> ... turning off the locking correctness validator.
> _raw_spin_lock_irq <- dmt_status <- dm_ima_measure_on_table_load
> <- table_load <- ctl_ioctl
>
> and disables lockdep for the rest of the boot. Initialize the spinlock
> in the constructor next to mutex_init(&dmt->ctl_mutex).
>
> Fixes: 51958806db7e ("dm: Add dm-tracking target")
> Feature: dm-tracking: dirty blocks tracking target driver (for migration)
> https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-137234
> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
> ---
> drivers/md/dm-tracking.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-tracking.c b/drivers/md/dm-tracking.c
> index ff0ba1cc5510..9b387a92f9a9 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-tracking.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-tracking.c
> @@ -153,6 +153,7 @@ static int dmt_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv)
> goto err;
>
> mutex_init(&dmt->ctl_mutex);
> + spin_lock_init(&dmt->lock);
>
> ti->private = dmt;
> dmt->ti = ti;
--
Best regards, Pavel Tikhomirov
Senior Software Developer, Virtuozzo.
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