On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Ted, I don't think this patch is needed at all - see my email [1]. Sadly > Naoto didn't reply to my question whether he really saw any deadlock / > lockdep splat or whether it was just a theoretical concern he had... Thanks, good point. So what we should do instead is just drop ext4_kvmalloc() entirely. - Ted