The patch titled Subject: mm: revert "mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()" has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-revert-mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-revert-mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: revert "mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()" Date: Fri Nov 15 04:57:24 PM PST 2024 Revert d949d1d14fa2 ("mm: shmem: fix data-race in shmem_getattr()") as suggested by Chuck [1]. It is causing deadlocks when accessing tmpfs over NFS. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZzdxKF39VEmXSSyN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [1] Fixes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZzdxKF39VEmXSSyN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-revert-mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -1166,9 +1166,7 @@ static int shmem_getattr(struct mnt_idma stat->attributes_mask |= (STATX_ATTR_APPEND | STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE | STATX_ATTR_NODUMP); - inode_lock_shared(inode); generic_fillattr(idmap, request_mask, inode, stat); - inode_unlock_shared(inode); if (shmem_huge_global_enabled(inode, 0, 0, false, NULL, 0)) stat->blksize = HPAGE_PMD_SIZE; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are fs-proc-vmcorec-fix-warning-when-config_mmu=n.patch mm-revert-mm-shmem-fix-data-race-in-shmem_getattr.patch