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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-04-14 00:10:35 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-09-14 07:18:01 +0200
commita412f9efdd6424bf4bf28c8e8c92060b5e975482 (patch)
treeb290d38a85c4b675af426dbd8593768bc5339fa1 /fs
parent8ebc423238341b52912c7295b045a32477b33f09 (diff)
downloadlinux-a412f9efdd6424bf4bf28c8e8c92060b5e975482.tar.bz2
reiserfs, kill-the-BKL: fix unsafe j_flush_mutex lock
Impact: fix a deadlock The j_flush_mutex is acquired safely in journal.c: if we can't take it, we free the reiserfs per superblock lock and wait a bit. But we have a remaining place in kupdate_transactions() where j_flush_mutex is still acquired traditionnaly. Thus the following scenario (warned by lockdep) can happen: A B mutex_lock(&write_lock) mutex_lock(&write_lock) mutex_lock(&j_flush_mutex) mutex_lock(&j_flush_mutex) //block mutex_unlock(&write_lock) sleep... mutex_lock(&write_lock) //deadlock Fix this by using reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe() in kupdate_transactions(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> LKML-Reference: <1239660635-12940-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/reiserfs/journal.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index 438c71f0bc91..0ba98ca367c7 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ static int kupdate_transactions(struct super_block *s,
struct reiserfs_journal *journal = SB_JOURNAL(s);
chunk.nr = 0;
- mutex_lock(&journal->j_flush_mutex);
+ reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(&journal->j_flush_mutex, s);
if (!journal_list_still_alive(s, orig_trans_id)) {
goto done;
}