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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blkcg: circular dependency between blkcg_pol_mutex and s_active
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 15:26:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140504192630.GE26279@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5363C04B.4010400@oracle.com>

Hello,

On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 11:56:59AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
> kernel I've stumbled on the following:

This is a highly unlikely deadlock which got introduced by recent
changes in cgroup core.  I'm working to further simplify locking in
cgroup core.  Will prep a quick fix for this issue soon.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-04 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 15:56 Sasha Levin
2014-05-04 19:26 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2014-05-05 16:37 ` [PATCH cgroup/for-3.15-fixes] blkcg: use trylock on blkcg_pol_mutex in blkcg_reset_stats() Tejun Heo
2014-05-05 16:38   ` Tejun Heo
2014-05-05 17:47   ` Sasha Levin
2014-05-05 17:48     ` Tejun Heo

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