[Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2: fix recursive locking deadlock

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 10 May 2016 14:10:43 +0800 Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

OK, I added the cc:stable tags to the changelogs.