On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > It's very much _not_ just overlayfs being pathological - that it certainly is, > but the problem is much wider.
Al, can you take a look at my two patches, and see if you agree that they fix it, though? Of course, we now have *another* splice deadlock. That pipe inode is nasty, it's very easy to deadlock on it in subtle ways. Linus