Hi, On 2/2/21 10:32 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >>> Is it a regression? AFAIK it is a bug that has been there >>> forever... My original plan was to simply wait for 5.12, so it gets >>> full release of testing... >> >> It may have been a pre-existing bug which got triggered by libata >> changes? > > Fixes tag suggests it is rather old. > >> I don't know. I almost always run all my locally build kernels with lockdep >> enabled and as the maintainer of the vboxvideo, vboxguest and vboxsf guest >> drivers in the mainline kernel I quite often boot local build kernels inside >> a vm. >> >> So I believe that lockdep tripping over this is new in 5.11, which is why >> I called it a regression. >> >> And the fix seems very safe and simple, so IMHO it would be good to get >> this into 5.11 > > It is in 5.11 now, and also -stable kernels. (Which suprised me a > bit). > > Testing would be welcome. I've been running my locally build kernels with this patch added for a while now. Including inside VirtualBox where the bug triggered before. I've not seen any bad side-effects from having this patch in my local kernels and I can confirm that it fixes the issue which I was seeing. Regards, Hans
