Re: [syzbot] [ocfs2?] possible deadlock in ocfs2_xattr_remove

Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.ocfs2-devel,dev.linux.lists.syzbot,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <875x17lrfp.ffs@fw13>
On Mon, Aug 17 2026 at 16:20, syzbot wrote:
> syzbot suspects this issue was fixed by commit:
>
> commit f24df84cbe05e4471c04ac4b921fc0340bbc7752
> Author: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Date:   Tue Jun 9 15:14:45 2026 +0000
>
>     time/jiffies: Register jiffies clocksource before usage

That is completely unrelated and fixes an early boot issue which
manifest way before you can start your test case.

The lockdep splat is purely about OCFS2 internal locking. Your bisection
took a wrong turn somewhere.

Thanks,

        tglx
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