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

From: Zenghui Yu

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 22:02:10 EST


On 2026/9/17 20:07, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > 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.

Tested-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Zenghui