Bug 433329

Summary: lockdep: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom London <selinux>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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lockdep message on "losetup" none

Description Tom London 2008-02-18 17:52:21 UTC
Description of problem:
Get this when running "losetup" on usb hard drive:

Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency
detected ]
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: 2.6.25-0.50.rc2.fc9 #1
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel:
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Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: losetup/3515 is trying to acquire lock:
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel:  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c04aa5e2>]
__blkdev_put+0x24/0x12f
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: 
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: but task is already holding lock:
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel:  (&lo->lo_ctl_mutex){--..}, at: [<f8ef1087>]
lo_ioctl+0x3d/0xa01 [loop]
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: 
Feb 17 17:22:15 localhost kernel: which lock already depends on the new lock.

Complete spew in the attachment.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.25-0.50.rc2.fc9.i686

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Comment 1 Tom London 2008-02-18 17:52:21 UTC
Created attachment 295184 [details]
lockdep message on "losetup"

Comment 2 Charles R. Anderson 2008-02-22 16:24:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 433157 ***