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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-08-20 11:05:29 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-08-22 16:23:27 -0700
commit1d8715b388c978b0f1b1bf4812fcee0e73b023d7 (patch)
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parentdad2f19424a2f4d30009e5aa51aca05a0bba7020 (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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/write.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/write.c b/fs/jffs2/write.c
index c9fe0ab3a329..1b68a521acfc 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/write.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c
@@ -553,6 +553,9 @@ 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) {