jffs2 mutex problem

Artem B. Bityutskiy dedekind at yandex.ru
Tue Nov 15 08:57:10 EST 2005


Keijiro Yano wrote:
> It is for Linux 2.6.10.
> But, based on my source level investigation, it can be applied for the 
> latest CVS.
Ok.

> I have tested it only on Linux 2.6.10.
Ok.

> I think that ecos doesn't have this problem, because ecos initializes 
> the locked mutex in jffs2_init_inode_info().
Hmm, I do you mean that Ecos's jffs2_init_inode_info() is not a slab
cache constructor so the bug does not exist there? Probably you're right.

Thanks. I think I'll commit this patch if people are OK.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.




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