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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 23:22:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] locking/lockdep: Don't complain about incorrect name for no
 validate class
Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/5.2/older/patches-5.2.17-rt9.tar.xz

[ Upstream commit 978315462d3ea3cf6cfacd34c563ec1eb02a3aa5 ]

It is possible to ignore the validation for a certain lock by using:

	lockdep_set_novalidate_class()

on it. Each invocation will assign a new name to the class it created
for created __lockdep_no_validate__. That means that once
lockdep_set_novalidate_class() has been used on two locks then
class->name won't match lock->name for the first lock triggering the
warning.

So ignore changed non-matching ->name pointer for the special
__lockdep_no_validate__ class.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190517212234.32611-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -732,7 +732,8 @@ look_up_lock_class(const struct lockdep_
 			 * Huh! same key, different name? Did someone trample
 			 * on some memory? We're most confused.
 			 */
-			WARN_ON_ONCE(class->name != lock->name);
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(class->name != lock->name &&
+				     lock->key != &__lockdep_no_validate__);
 			return class;
 		}
 	}