https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215712 --- Comment #1 from Artem S. Tashkinov (aros@xxxxxxx) --- (In reply to bughunter from comment #0) > I have created an image with mkfs.ext4, and modified some of the metadata of > the image. Unfortunately, when I tried to mount the image with a loop > device, the kernel deadlocked. I have attempted many ways to stop the mount > process, even executed a 'kill' command, but they are failed, only what I > can do is to reboot the system. Can anyone tell me why the kernel > deadlocked, and how can I fix this problem? That's a bug in the kernel, this situation shouldn't happen. Hopefully someone will debug and fix this. In the meanwhile it would be great if you confirmed that 5.17 is also affected. -- You may reply to this email to add a comment. You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug.