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[PATCH] mqueue: nested locking annotation

Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8130

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra 18 years ago
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      ipc/mqueue.c

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ipc/mqueue.c

@@ -731,7 +731,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mq_unlink(const char __user *u_name)
 	if (IS_ERR(name))
 		return PTR_ERR(name);
 
-	mutex_lock(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&mqueue_mnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mutex,
+			I_MUTEX_PARENT);
 	dentry = lookup_one_len(name, mqueue_mnt->mnt_root, strlen(name));
 	if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(dentry);