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| author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2010-05-28 21:32:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2010-06-04 17:16:27 -0400 |
| commit | 971b2e8a3f5dc0cbef19ec1a77b6d20237aa751e (patch) | |
| tree | 83d7129b09c08d74ff2f6e494b71a83243db3925 /drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c | |
| parent | 0abbb609ac511fc226b8b1082613193c8ecf8324 (diff) | |
| download | linux-971b2e8a3f5dc0cbef19ec1a77b6d20237aa751e.tar.bz2 | |
fix the deadlock in qib_fs
get_sb_single() calls fill_super with superblock locked; calling
deactivate_super() will deadlock immedately. Moreover, if fill_super
callback returns an error, get_sb_single() will release the reference
to superblock itself just fine.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c index edef8527eb34..844954bf417b 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c @@ -542,10 +542,8 @@ static int qibfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) list_for_each_entry_safe(dd, tmp, &qib_dev_list, list) { spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qib_devs_lock, flags); ret = add_cntr_files(sb, dd); - if (ret) { - deactivate_super(sb); + if (ret) goto bail; - } spin_lock_irqsave(&qib_devs_lock, flags); } |