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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2021-03-21 15:49:13 +0900
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-04-28 13:16:48 +0200
commit2bd197dfdc913556444ff51670c1c509e725381c (patch)
treed20abb93df17dbc3ee1c51fbbfd506ea69e8fdec /kernel/locking
parentc5d6a661642cd574be2a66969c63553191e25e9d (diff)
lockdep: Add a missing initialization hint to the "INFO: Trying to register non-static key" message
[ Upstream commit 3a85969e9d912d5dd85362ee37b5f81266e00e77 ] Since this message is printed when dynamically allocated spinlocks (e.g. kzalloc()) are used without initialization (e.g. spin_lock_init()), suggest to developers to check whether initialization functions for objects were called, before making developers wonder what annotation is missing. [ mingo: Minor tweaks to the message. ] Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210321064913.4619-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking')
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/lockdep.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index 8a1758b094b7..126c6d524a0f 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -722,7 +722,8 @@ static bool assign_lock_key(struct lockdep_map *lock)
/* Debug-check: all keys must be persistent! */
debug_locks_off();
pr_err("INFO: trying to register non-static key.\n");
- pr_err("the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.\n");
+ pr_err("The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe\n");
+ pr_err("you didn't initialize this object before use?\n");
pr_err("turning off the locking correctness validator.\n");
dump_stack();
return false;