From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Prithvi <activprithvi@gmail.com>
Cc: joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com, mark@fasheh.com, jlbec@evilplan.org,
heming.zhao@suse.com, ocfs2-devel@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev, skhan@linuxfoundation.org,
david.hunter.linux@gmail.com, khalid@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_del_inode_from_orphan()
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:47:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aWhxfLwUvHDswsIY@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260115031809.w7ksrj2ostwyxa54@inspiron>
On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 08:48:09AM +0530, Prithvi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2026 at 12:07:00AM +0530, Prithvi wrote:
> > IIUC that would be the case when ocfs2_dio_end_io_write() operates on normal
> > files. However, according to the report of the bug, ocfs2_dio_end_io_write()
> > is holding &ocfs2_quota_ip_alloc_sem_key so I think due to random fuzzing by
> > syzkaller, the function is curently operating on a quota file.
So the right fix is probably to disallow DIO to a quota file, wouldn't
you say?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-15 4:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-06 12:51 [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_del_inode_from_orphan() Prithvi Tambewagh
2026-01-08 1:29 ` Joseph Qi
2026-01-08 18:36 ` Prithvi
2026-01-15 3:18 ` Prithvi
2026-01-15 4:47 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2026-01-17 17:42 ` Prithvi
2026-02-16 4:16 ` Prithvi
2026-02-23 5:05 ` Prithvi
2026-02-24 8:54 ` Heming Zhao
2026-02-28 5:12 ` Prithvi
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