Hi, On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:52 +0300, Sergey Vlasov wrote: [snip excellent analysis] > Seems that grabbing i_mutex in ntfs_put_inode() is not safe after all > (and lockdep cannot see this deadlock possibility, because one of > waits is __wait_on_freeing_inode - not a standard locking primitive).
Inded. Thanks a lot for the report and detailed analysis! Much appreciated. I have been meaning to do the needed changes anyway so the new OSX and Linux drivers are more alike but had not gotten round to it yet... Now that I know it actually causes a deadlock I will bite the bullet and do the changes now. ps. Aplogies for delayed response but I was on holiday without computers/internet access... Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/