complete_and_exit() problem
Jarkko Lavinen
jlavi at iki.fi
Mon Sep 3 08:58:42 EDT 2001
The garbage collection thread crashes when I unmount JFFS2. The filesystem
is empry and I only mount it and then unmount it. I am using kernel
2.4.8ac12 with rmk1 patch for ARM cpu.
I traced the exeution to complete_and_exit(), then to complete(), then
to __wake_up_common(). In __wake_up_common() there is a loop
list_for_each(tmp,&q->task_list) {
unsigned int state;
wait_queue_t *curr = list_entry(tmp, wait_queue_t, task_list);
CHECK_MAGIC(curr->__magic);
p = curr->task;
state = p->state;
if (state & mode) {
WQ_NOTE_WAKER(curr);
if (try_to_wake_up(p, sync) && (curr->flags&WQ_FLAG_EXCL
USIVE) && !--nr_exclusive)
break;
}
}
When entering the loop, the list q->task_list contains no task.
q->task_list.next and q->task_lis.prev are null pointers.
list_for_each() checks the end of list by comparing against the
list head (q->task_list), not NULL.
I tried replacing
- if (comp)
+ if (comp && comp->wait.task_list.next)
in complete_and_exit(). I don't know if it is the right way to do it,
but at least the garbage gollection thread stopped crashing.
Jarkko Lavinen
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