On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:59:41 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > The recent move of the bdev_statx call to the low-level vfs_getattr_nosec > helper caused it being used by devtmpfs, which leads to deadlocks in > md teardown due to the block device lookup and put interfering with the > unusual lifetime rules in md. > > But as handle_remove only works on inodes created and owned by devtmpfs > itself there is no need to use vfs_getattr_nosec vs simply reading the > mode from the inode directly. Switch to that to avoid the bdev lookup > or any other unintentional side effect. > > [...] Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon. Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase, trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch. tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git branch: vfs.fixes [1/1] devtmpfs: don't use vfs_getattr_nosec to query i_mode https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/5a876a5097fe
