From ae635c0bbd6c10aa62bf5149c6f41add59fbf4d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:24:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix "reiserfs lock" / "inode mutex" lock inversion dependency reiserfs_xattr_init is called with the reiserfs write lock held, but if the ".reiserfs_priv" entry is not created, we take the superblock root directory inode mutex until .reiserfs_priv is created. This creates a lock dependency inversion against other sites such as reiserfs_file_release() which takes an inode mutex and the reiserfs lock after. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alexander Beregalov Cc: Laurent Riffard --- Reading git-format-patch failed