Re: mq: INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Aug 14 2012 - 18:13:29 EST


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> OK, this is a theoretical deadlock since mqueue (virtual) filesystem cannot
> really be frozen. But we should convert the mqueue code to deal with new
> lock ordering of i_mutex and mnt_want_write() anyway to make lockdep happy
> if anything... That file somehow escaped my conversion efforts. I'll send a
> fix tomorrow.

It's fixed in commit 98d11eacde966041ac7357d99d4079db7173dd40 (in vfs.git)
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