On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:26:57AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> So I don't think the freeing code could trigger, but a concurrent >> lookup then trying to look up the new directory (and taking the new >> directory i_semaphore lock) could happen, afaik. > > Umm... The thing is, we'd get WARN_ON() in iput_final() triggering in > that scenario before lockdep could complain. Not for the "look up directory in the dcache, and then lock that inode" case, afaik. You'd get the lock before iput_final(), no? So then "unlock_new_inode()" would run with the inode mutex held, which could explain the lockdep warning, no? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html