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From: Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans <fredrickprashanth@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock_super
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 07:05:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2id4f60c3c1005040705v2e46547axad496769d4d4dbe8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100504103232.GA25054@infradead.org>

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:59:42PM -0700, Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans wrote:
>> The box was running kernel version 2.6.27.10.
>> But I think the FAT code has not changed much.
>
> But the nfsd code has and now doesn't call lookup from the filldir
> callback anymore.
>
>

Ah..I just noticed the changes in the nfsd code.

But in 2.6.27.10, can it be fixed by removing the lock_super in the
vfat_lookup.?
Because I saw some discussions long back of regressions due to
replacing lock_kernel by lock_super in FAT code.
Or should the sb mutex be unlocked before calling the callback filldir
in the __fat_readdir?

Thanks,
Fredrick

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-04  5:59 Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans
2010-05-04 10:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-05-04 14:05   ` Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans [this message]
2010-05-04 18:37     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-05-04 18:01   ` Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans
2010-05-04 18:41     ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2010-05-04 19:43       ` Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans

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