[PATCH] JFFS2: fix deadlock on error path
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind at infradead.org
Tue Mar 13 08:19:25 EDT 2007
From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] JFFS2: fix deadlock on error path
When the MTD driver returns write failure, the following deadlock
occures:
We are in __jffs2_flush_wbuf(), we hold &c->wbuf_sem. Write failure.
jffs2_wbuf_recover()->jffs2_reserve_space_gc()->jffs2_do_reserve_space()
->jffs2_erase_pending_blocks()->jffs2_flash_read()
and it tries to lock &c->wbuf_sem again. Deadlock.
Reported-by: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter at nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
---
fs/jffs2/erase.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/erase.c b/fs/jffs2/erase.c
index ad01210..6b1f7be 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/erase.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/erase.c
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ static int jffs2_block_check_erase(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_erasebl
*bad_offset = ofs;
- ret = jffs2_flash_read(c, ofs, readlen, &retlen, ebuf);
+ ret = c->mtd->read(c->mtd, ofs, readlen, &retlen, ebuf);
if (ret) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "Read of newly-erased block at 0x%08x failed: %d. Putting on bad_list\n", ofs, ret);
goto fail;
--
1.4.4.2
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
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