Re: [PATCH RFC v4 23/25] fs: start all kthreads in nullfs

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 08:39:35 EST


> The following lockdep splat can be triggered on mainline, which is built
> with arm64's defconfig plus
>
> CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG
> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> CONFIG_FTRACE
>
> . Reverting this patch (as pointed out by AI) makes this warn disappear.

This is benign and caused by holding LOCK_MOUNT_EXACT() for longer than
necessary. I'm adding the appended fix to vfs.fixes.