[PATCH 3/5] xfs: asserting lock not held during freeing not valid

[Mark Tinguely]

On 09/24/13 01:01, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner<dchinner at redhat.com>
>
> When we free an inode, we do so via RCU. As an RCU lookup can occur
> at any time before we free an inode, and that lookup takes the inode
> flags lock, we cannot safely assert that the flags lock is not held
> just before marking it dead and running call_rcu() to free the
> inode.
>
> We check on allocation of a new inode structre that the lock is not
> held, so we still have protection against locks being leaked and
> hence not correctly initialised when allocated out of the slab.
> Hence just remove the assert...
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner<dchinner at redhat.com>
> ---

Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Mark Tinguely <tinguely at sgi.com>