Re: [PATCH] pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 03:52:56 EST


On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 04:20:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Lockdep complains about a possible deadlock between mount and unlink
> (which is technically impossible), but fixing this improves possible
> future multiple-backend support, and keeps locking in the right order.

I have merged your for-next/pstore branch (which included this patch,
so I hope I chose correctly ;) into our CI. That should exercise it on
the machines that we originally found the lockdep splat.

Thanks,
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre