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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:41:04 +1000
From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Subject: Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace.
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To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:16:02AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:03:51PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> > I posted patches to fix this i_mutex/i_iolock inversion a couple of
> > years ago (july 2011):
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/18/4
> > 
> > And V2 was posted here and reviewed (aug 2011):
> > 
> > http://xfs.9218.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-0-2-splice-i-mutex-vs-splice-write-deadlock-V2-tt4072.html#none
> 
> Unless I'm misreading the patch, you end up doing file_remove_suid()
> without holding i_mutex at all...

We've been calling file_remove_suid() since at least 2010 without
i_mutex held through the direct IO write path....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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