Ocfs2 devel - May 2016 - ocfs2: fix recursive locking deadlock

On Tue, 10 May 2016 12:53:41 +0800 Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com>
wrote:
> These two patches is to fix recursive locking deadlock issues. As we
> talked with Mark before, recursive locking is not allowed in ocfs2,
> so these two patches fixes the deadlock issue with reverting back
> patches to avoid recursive locking. Please review.
2-3 years old so I guess it isn't a huge issue.  Did you consider
backporting into -stable kernels?

On 05/10/2016 01:58 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2016 12:53:41 +0800 Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at
oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> These two patches is to fix recursive locking deadlock issues. As we
>> talked with Mark before, recursive locking is not allowed in ocfs2,
>> so these two patches fixes the deadlock issue with reverting back
>> patches to avoid recursive locking. Please review.
> 
> 2-3 years old so I guess it isn't a huge issue.  Did you consider
> backporting into -stable kernels?
> 
We'd better do that. I reproduced every one in my test env.

Thanks,
Junxiao.