Re: [CHECKER] possible reiserfs deadlock in 2.6.8.1

[viro]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:16:53PM -0700, Dawson Engler wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> below is a possible deadlock in the linux-2.6.8.1 reiserfs code found by
> a static deadlock checker I'm writing.  Let me know if it looks valid
> and/or whether the output is too cryptic.    Note, one of the locks is
> through a struct pointer, so the deadlock depends on both acquisitions
> being to the same struct.

Not valid, for the same reason as the above.  BKL and down() do not form
a mutual deadlock.
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