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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 22:58:04 -0700
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] ocfs2: fix recursive locking deadlock
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On Tue, 10 May 2016 12:53:41 +0800 Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com> wrote:

> These two patches is to fix recursive locking deadlock issues. As we
> talked with Mark before, recursive locking is not allowed in ocfs2,
> so these two patches fixes the deadlock issue with reverting back
> patches to avoid recursive locking. Please review.

2-3 years old so I guess it isn't a huge issue.  Did you consider
backporting into -stable kernels?