Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ext4: protect ext4_release_dquot against freezing

Theodore Ts'o
2025-03-06T16:05:00Z

On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 12:00:49PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 06:08:55PM +0530, Ojaswin Mujoo wrote:
> > Protect ext4_release_dquot against freezing so that we
> > don't try to start a transaction when FS is frozen, leading
> > to warnings.
> >
> > Further, avoid taking the freeze protection if a transaction
> > is already running so that we don't need end up in a deadlock
> > as described in
> >
> > 46e294efc355 ext4: fix deadlock with fs freezing and EA inodes
> >
> > Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
>
> Hey Ted,
>
> Just a ping, I think you might have missed this patch. Let me know if
> anything else is needed from my side.

Yes, I did miss this patch; thanks for the reminder. It looks good
and I've added it to my tree.

- Ted