Deadlock between XFS and loop driver due to nfs_file_fsync by the loop

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (the same issue might occur on RHEL9)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • XFS filesystem built on top of loop block devices
  • loop devices backed on files residing on NFS filesystems

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