On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 03:26:02PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 01:50:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > For example, why does this not work? > > It does for the write case for sure, I mispoke, just for the record, the changes you mentioned actually don't suffice for the test cases in question for test_sysfs, the deadlock still occurs with those changes. At first I thought it did but I had failed to remove my own fix first on fs/kernfs/dir.c. After removing that and just trying the proposed changes I confirm it does not fix the deadlock. Luis