Hi, I got the following report in syslog: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: ============================================= Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: 2.6.23-default #1 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: --------------------------------------------- Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: beagled/4092 is trying to acquire lock: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff88090081>] reiserfs_xattr_set+0xf3/0x30e [reiserfs] Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: but task is already holding lock: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff802adef5>] vfs_setxattr+0x4d/0x1e0 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: other info that might help us debug this: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: 3 locks held by beagled/4092: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: #0: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff802adef5>] vfs_setxattr+0x4d/0x1e0 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: #1: (&REISERFS_I(inode)->xattr_sem){----}, at: [<ffffffff8808fb56>] reiserfs_setxattr+0x6b/0x11f [reiserfs] Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: #2: (&REISERFS_SB(s)->xattr_dir_sem){----}, at: [<ffffffff8808fb89>] reiserfs_setxattr+0x9e/0x11f [reiserfs] Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: stack backtrace: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: Call Trace: Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff80250528>] __lock_acquire+0x1b7/0xcaf Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8025140d>] lock_acquire+0x51/0x6c Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff88090081>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_xattr_set+0xf3/0x30e Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8024ddd1>] debug_mutex_lock_common+0x16/0x23 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8044b824>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe1/0x277 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff88090081>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_xattr_set+0xf3/0x30e Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8024feec>] trace_hardirqs_on+0x115/0x139 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8044d1f4>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x27 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8044c85a>] __down_write_nested+0x34/0x9e Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8808fbb2>] :reiserfs:reiserfs_setxattr+0xc7/0x11f Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff802adf56>] vfs_setxattr+0xae/0x1e0 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff802ae148>] setxattr+0xc0/0xdd Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8028f376>] kmem_cache_free+0x1c4/0x1d6 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8024feec>] trace_hardirqs_on+0x115/0x139 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8029dae5>] do_path_lookup+0x1ae/0x22c Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8029e340>] __user_walk_fd+0x41/0x4c Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff802ae1ae>] sys_lsetxattr+0x49/0x6a Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8020bdfa>] tracesys+0x71/0xe1 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: [<ffffffff8020be65>] tracesys+0xdc/0xe1 Oct 17 10:56:35 oenone kernel: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html