Re: [syzbot] [xfs?] possible deadlock in xfs_ilock (4)

From: Carlos Maiolino

Date: Tue Jan 06 2026 - 08:35:44 EST


On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 08:54:37PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 12:10:55AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 10:15:32AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > iomap: use mapping_gfp_mask() for iomap_fill_dirty_folios()
> >
> > This looks good, but didn't we queue up Brian's fix to remove
> > the allocation entirely by now?
>
> No idea - I didn't see a fix in the XFS for-next or the VFS
> 7.20-iomap branches. I've been on holidays for the past couple of
> weeks so I'd kinda forgotten that we'd been through this a month
> ago.

FWIW iomap patches don't go through xfs tree.

Patch is here, in linux-next since next-20251216
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?id=ed61378b4dc63efe76cb8c23a36b228043332da3

>
> -Dave.
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> Dave Chinner
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