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>
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/write.c b/fs/jffs2/write.c
index bc61859..664c164 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/write.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c
@@ -566,6 +566,9 @@
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) {
