Re: [PATCH 09/12] ext4: drop s_umount over opening the log device

Christian Brauner
2023-08-03T18:16:53Z

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 05:41:28PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Just like get_tree_bdev needs to drop s_umount when opening the main
> device, we need to do the same for the ext4 log device to avoid a
> potential lock order reversal with s_unmount for the mark_dead path.
>
> It might be preferable to just drop s_umount over ->fill_super entirely,
> but that will require a fairly massive audit first, so we'll do the easy
> version here first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---

Looks good to me,
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>