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| author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2007-08-20 11:05:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-20 22:44:27 -0700 |
| commit | b5748643332bf75274e0b639926d57e86fb133cf (patch) | |
| tree | b649c2d0abe6149343ec17dd0f4a8a5827759082 /fs | |
| parent | 2046219364a40bcb13482ff68eb6ccec13405633 (diff) | |
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JFFS2 locking regression fix.
Commit a491486a2087ac3dfc00efb4f838c8d684afaf54 introduced a locking
problem in JFFS2 -- we up() the alloc_sem when we weren't previously
holding it. This leads to all kinds of fun behaviour later.
There was a _reason_ for the
if (1 /* alternative path needs testing */ ||
which the above-mentioned commit removed :)
Discovered and debugged by Giulio Fedel <giulio.fedel@andorsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/write.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/write.c b/fs/jffs2/write.c index bc6185933664..664c164aa67c 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/write.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c @@ -566,6 +566,9 @@ int jffs2_do_unlink(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_inode_info *dir_f, struct jffs2_full_dirent **prev = &dir_f->dents; uint32_t nhash = full_name_hash(name, namelen); + /* We don't actually want to reserve any space, but we do + want to be holding the alloc_sem when we write to flash */ + down(&c->alloc_sem); down(&dir_f->sem); while ((*prev) && (*prev)->nhash <= nhash) { |