Thinking some more.. On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Hmm. But again, that can't actually happen here. We're in /proc. You > can't move the entries around.
.. this wasn't a good argument, because we will take the locks before we do that. > Also, we only changed the locking order > for the "inode is identical" case where we take only *one* lock, we > didn't change it for the cases where we take multiple locks (and order > them topologically). .. and this isn't a good argument either, because your argument was that you can get the deadlock by always taking two directories, and never hitting the alias case itself. Hmm. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/