Re: Re: WARNING in kill_block_super

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 10:28:06AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 07:53:07PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > Al and Michal, are you OK with this patch?
> > 
> > First of all, it does *NOT* fix the problems with careless ->kill_sb().
> > The fuse-blk case is the only real rationale so far.  Said that,
> > 
> 
> Please notice below one as well. Fixing all careless ->kill_sb() will be too
> difficult to backport. For now, avoid calling deactivate_locked_super() is
> safer.

How will that fix e.g. jffs2?

> [upstream] WARNING: refcount bug in put_pid_ns
> https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=17e202b4794da213570ba33ac2f70277ef1ce015

Should be fixed by 8e666cb33597 in that series, AFAICS.