linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 3.4.5] reiserfs: mutex_destroy called with locked mutex

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFx_soQ2sKAcY0yhSFOchkjH55Kvu=jTUW0PJLNxRk9rGQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:37:52 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@...nline.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 3.4.5] reiserfs: mutex_destroy called with locked mutex

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  The only questions
> are "is this the WARN_ON() Knut had stepped on" (and I agree with your
> scenario now) and "is it critical enough to shove it into the tree
> less than a week before -final".  Up to you...


I agree that it isn't critical. Even the lockdep thing is just a
warning, and is apparently quite hard to trigger.

Will you hold on to the patch in your VFS tree, and we can just merge
it for 3.6?

                    Linus
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