[PATCH v2] vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:16:28 +0800, Zhihao Cheng wrote:
> The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all
> reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that
> time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes
> (See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the
> inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with
> ea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode
> evicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the
> inode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.
> 
> [...]

I've replaced the BUG_ON() with WARN_ON().

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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.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

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      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/24b0ba4e047d