Re: [PATCH] mm: swap: Unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfiles

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:

> This patch releases the mutex if its held before calling filep_close()
> so swapon fails as expected without deadlock when the swapfile is backed
> by NFS.  If accepted for 2.6.39, it should also be considered a -stable
> candidate for 2.6.38 and 2.6.37.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

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