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SubjectRe: Locking problem in overlayfs
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Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:

> Uh-oh. We changed nesting late in the cycle and I didn't retest with lockdep.
>
> And it's actually harmless, but AFAICS needs another level of nesting between
> I_MUTEX_CHILD and I_MUTEX_NORMAL.

In an overlay directory that shadows an empty lower directory, say
/mnt/a/empty102, do:

touch /mnt/a/empty102/x
unlink /mnt/a/empty102/x
rmdir /mnt/a/empty102

David


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