Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix possible leakage of blocks in UDF

Jan Kara wrote:

but iput goes
iput->iput_final->drop_inode->udf_drop_inode->lock_kernel() again

  As Andrew already wrote, BKL is free to recurse...

looking for the right way around it but figured I'd ping you early :)

  Thanks for info - I'm now mostly out of email for a few days but I'll
have a look at it as soon as I return.

Ok. I was offbase in my first analysis (sorry!) but something -is- definitely locking up when I run fsstress, and w/o the patch mentioned it's ok.

I'm trying to manage to get it sorted but i'm out a couple of days now, too.

-Eric
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