Re: [PATCH] Revert "fs/ntfs3: Replace inode_trylock with inode_lock"
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jul 07 2025 - 09:00:47 EST
On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 02:47:38PM +0200, Konstantin Komarov wrote:
> This reverts commit 69505fe98f198ee813898cbcaf6770949636430b.
>
> Make lock acquiring conditional to avoid the deadlock.
This is not a very useful commit message for a locking change.
Please explain the problem this solves, and why the original reason
for the locking change isn't valid any more, or less important than
the newly arising issue.