Merge tag 'v3.13-rc6' into spi-dw

To resolve trivial overlaps with fixes.

Linux 3.13-rc6

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 79b5da2acbe..35e7d08fe62 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -649,7 +649,23 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	if (!of)
 		goto err_out;
 
-	mutex_init(&of->mutex);
+	/*
+	 * The following is done to give a different lockdep key to
+	 * @of->mutex for files which implement mmap.  This is a rather
+	 * crude way to avoid false positive lockdep warning around
+	 * mm->mmap_sem - mmap nests @of->mutex under mm->mmap_sem and
+	 * reading /sys/block/sda/trace/act_mask grabs sr_mutex, under
+	 * which mm->mmap_sem nests, while holding @of->mutex.  As each
+	 * open file has a separate mutex, it's okay as long as those don't
+	 * happen on the same file.  At this point, we can't easily give
+	 * each file a separate locking class.  Let's differentiate on
+	 * whether the file is bin or not for now.
+	 */
+	if (sysfs_is_bin(attr_sd))
+		mutex_init(&of->mutex);
+	else
+		mutex_init(&of->mutex);
+
 	of->sd = attr_sd;
 	of->file = file;