From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

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[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
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init/1 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a78a>] flush_old_exec+0x3ae/0x859

but task is already holding lock:
 (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a77a>] flush_old_exec+0x39e/0x859

other info that might help us debug this:
2 locks held by init/1:
 #0:  (tasklist_lock){..--}, at: [<c047a76a>] flush_old_exec+0x38e/0x859
 #1:  (&sighand->siglock){....}, at: [<c047a77a>] flush_old_exec+0x39e/0x859

stack backtrace:
 [<c04051e1>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x54/0xfd
 [<c040579d>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
 [<c04058b6>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
 [<c043b33a>] __lock_acquire+0x773/0x997
 [<c043bacf>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6c
 [<c060630b>] _spin_lock+0x19/0x28
 [<c047a78a>] flush_old_exec+0x3ae/0x859
 [<c0498053>] load_elf_binary+0x4aa/0x1628
 [<c0479cab>] search_binary_handler+0xa7/0x24e
 [<c047b577>] do_execve+0x15b/0x1f9
 [<c04022b4>] sys_execve+0x29/0x4d
 [<c0403faf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/exec.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/exec.c~fix-up-lockdep-trace-in-fs-execc fs/exec.c
--- a/fs/exec.c~fix-up-lockdep-trace-in-fs-execc
+++ a/fs/exec.c
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ no_thread_group:
 
 		write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
 		spin_lock(&oldsighand->siglock);
-		spin_lock(&newsighand->siglock);
+		spin_lock_nested(&newsighand->siglock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
 
 		rcu_assign_pointer(tsk->sighand, newsighand);
 		recalc_sigpending();
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