On 9/7/21 5:52 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > The simplest fix is to call probe function without holding > major_names_lock [1], but Christoph Hellwig does not like such idea. > Therefore, instead of holding major_names_lock in blkdev_show(), > introduce a different lock for blkdev_show() in order to break > "sb_writers#$N => &p->lock => major_names_lock" dependency chain. Agree, that's probably the easiest fix here. Applied, thanks. -- Jens Axboe
