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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Moritz Tanner <moritz.tanner@linbit.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: don't return -EINVAL for successful nested thaw
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:52:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ao0tghVJQVIjfuDq@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260821085451.65206-1-moritz.tanner@linbit.com>

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 10:54:51AM +0200, Moritz Tanner wrote:
> Reproducer (any kernel since v6.8):
> 
>     dmsetup create dut --table "0 $(blockdev --getsz "$DEV") linear $DEV 0"
>     mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/dut
>     mount /dev/mapper/dut /mnt
>     fsfreeze --freeze /mnt      # freeze_ucount == 1
>     dmsetup suspend dut         # bd_fsfreeze_count == 1, ucount == 2
>     dmsetup resume dut          # ucount 2 -> 1, but thaw_super()
>                                 # returns -EINVAL, so bdev_thaw()
>                                 # keeps bd_fsfreeze_count at 1
>     fsfreeze --unfreeze /mnt    # filesystem thaws fine
>     umount /mnt
>     mount /dev/mapper/dut /mnt  # EBUSY, forever

Can you wire this up in xfstests or blktests?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-25  5:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-21  8:54 [PATCH] fs: don't return -EINVAL for successful nested thaw Moritz Tanner
2026-08-21  9:47 ` Lars Ellenberg
2026-08-25  5:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-08-25 14:28 ` Christian Brauner
2026-08-25 14:29 ` Christian Brauner

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