From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 linux-next] jbd2: Fix sparse context imbalance warning Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:44:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20140918204455.GA26995@thunk.org> References: <1411064974-18304-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Fabian Frederick Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1411064974-18304-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 08:29:34PM +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote: > spin_unlock after spin_lock only. > > This fixes the following sparse warning: > fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1102:20: warning: context imbalance > in 'jbd2_journal_get_create_access' - different lock contexts for basic block > > Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick NAK, this is a case where I think it's better to make the static analyzers better. In any case sparse gives a lot of false positives for this particular warning, so adding lines of code to try to shut up sparse for every single false positive seems to be a losing proposition. I'll note that these sorts of bugs are much more easily picked up using lockdep in any case, so we're probably better of just ignoring these sorts of warnings. Better to let the 0day kernel tester warn for new sparse warnings, instead of trying to drive sparse warnings down to zero. Cheers, - Ted