Re: [PATCH RFC] nfsd: avoid recursive locking through fsnotify

[Khazhy Kumykov]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 3:50 PM Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As has already been reported, the problem was fixed in Linux 5.5 by the
> garbage collector rewrite, and so this is no longer an issue.
>
9542e6a643fc ("nfsd: Containerise filecache laundrette"), 36ebbdb96b69
("nfsd: cleanup nfsd_file_lru_dispose()") apply cleanly to 5.4.y for
me, which is still LTS. Since this should fix a real deadlock, would
it be appropriate to include them for the 5.4 stable?

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