Re: [PATCH] mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling

[Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>]

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Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:40:43 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
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> Perhaps Stephen can directly add it to linux-next for a while?

I will add it to linux-next from today (until Miklos sorts it out).
Note that the fuse tree was updated since yesterday's linux-next, but
this patch is still not included.

> From: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>, "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>, Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:09:48 +0200
> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1
> 
> Commit 167f21a81a9c ("mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT") removed
> BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT flag and refactored code that depend on it.
> Unfortunately it also moved some variable intialization out of guarded
> scope in writeback handling, what triggers a true lockdep warning. Fix
> this by moving initialization to the proper place.
> 
> Fixes: 167f21a81a9c ("mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT")

This is now commit

  2841808f35ee ("mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT")

in the fuse tree.

> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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