On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:04:13AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2019/1/17 上午12:00, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > qgroups will do the old roots lookup at delayed ref time, which could be
> > while walking down the extent root while running a delayed ref.  This
> > should be fine, except we specifically lock eb's in the backref walking
> > code irrespective of path->skip_locking, which deadlocks the system.
> > Fix up the backref code to honor path->skip_locking, nobody will be
> > modifying the commit_root when we're searching so it's completely safe
> > to do.  Thanks,
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <[email protected]>

What can we use from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10725371/ to
add to the changelog? Is the deadlock caused by fb235dc06fac? The fix
applies to stable 4.19+ directly and to 4.14 with context fixups.
Thanks.

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