The -EBUSY return value of dquot_enable() function means that just want to update flags. If some users make a duplicate request to update flags, lockdep could catch the false positive casued by needing to allocate a quota block from inside ext4_map_blocks(), while holding i_data_sem for a data inode. This results in this complaint: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&s->s_dquot.dqio_mutex); lock(&ei->i_data_sem); lock(&s->s_dquot.dqio_mutex); lock(&ei->i_data_sem); Signed-off-by: Junil Lee <junil0814.lee@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 13d2706..0757c9a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -5637,7 +5637,7 @@ static int ext4_quota_enable(struct super_block *sb, int type, int format_id, lockdep_set_quota_inode(qf_inode, I_DATA_SEM_QUOTA); err = dquot_enable(qf_inode, type, format_id, flags); iput(qf_inode); - if (err) + if (err && err != -EBUSY) lockdep_set_quota_inode(qf_inode, I_DATA_SEM_NORMAL); return err; -- 2.6.2