Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: fix deadlock in dio write orphan cleanup path

[Deepanshu Kartikey]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2026 at 11:29 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This seems like a false positive.  You can't call write_iter() on
> a directory, and orphan_dir is always a directory.
>
> I would suggest that the easiest way to make this warning go away is to
> replace inode_lock(orphan_dir) with inode_lock_nested(orphan_dir,
> I_MUTEX_NONDIR2).  It's a bit quirky because, well, orphan2 is a
> directory.  We could add a seventh lock class to
> inode_i_mutex_lock_class, but that feels a bit excessive.
>

Thanks for the review. I have sent the patch v2 with
 inode_lock_nested(orphan_dir_inode, I_MUTEX_NONDIR2)