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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Yichen Xie <yxie@cs.stanford.edu>
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Subject: Re: [BUGS] [CHECKER] 99 synchronization bugs and a lock summary
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Yichen Xie <yxie@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>  > AFAICT fs/sysv/itree.c:find_shared is innocent.
> 
>  I guess here's what has triggered the warning by the tool:
> 
>  get_branch may try to acquire pointers_lock (itree.c:103) on one of its
>  paths, which was held (line 287) by find_shared...

OK, that's certainly very broken.   I'll fix that one up.