linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4: protect ext4_release

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Message-ID: <20250306155916.GA279274@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 10:59:16 -0500
From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>,
        Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4: protect ext4_release_dquot against freezing

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 12:00:49PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 06:08:55PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> > Protect ext4_release_dquot against freezing so that we
> > don't try to start a transaction when FS is frozen, leading
> > to warnings.
> > 
> > Further, avoid taking the freeze protection if a transaction
> > is already running so that we don't need end up in a deadlock
> > as described in
> > 
> >   46e294efc355 ext4: fix deadlock with fs freezing and EA inodes
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Hey Ted,
> 
> Just a ping, I think you might have missed this patch. Let me know if
> anything else is needed from my side.

Yes, I did miss this patch; thanks for the reminder. It looks good
and I've added it to my tree.

				- Ted