* [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] writeback-fix-false-warning-in-inode_to_wb.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2025-04-18 3:11 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2025-04-18 3:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, stable, jack, agruenba, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: writeback: fix false warning in inode_to_wb()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
writeback-fix-false-warning-in-inode_to_wb.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Subject: writeback: fix false warning in inode_to_wb()
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:39:12 +0200
inode_to_wb() is used also for filesystems that don't support cgroup
writeback. For these filesystems inode->i_wb is stable during the
lifetime of the inode (it points to bdi->wb) and there's no need to hold
locks protecting the inode->i_wb dereference. Improve the warning in
inode_to_wb() to not trigger for these filesystems.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250412163914.3773459-3-agruenba@redhat.com
Fixes: aaa2cacf8184 ("writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/backing-dev.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev.h~writeback-fix-false-warning-in-inode_to_wb
+++ a/include/linux/backing-dev.h
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ static inline struct bdi_writeback *inod
{
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
WARN_ON_ONCE(debug_locks &&
+ (inode->i_sb->s_iflags & SB_I_CGROUPWB) &&
(!lockdep_is_held(&inode->i_lock) &&
!lockdep_is_held(&inode->i_mapping->i_pages.xa_lock) &&
!lockdep_is_held(&inode->i_wb->list_lock)));
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from agruenba@redhat.com are
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