JFFS2 locking issue on 3.14 + patches

Brian Norris computersforpeace at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 09:51:08 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
> we are having this problem with JFFS2 rootfs. It is v3.14 kernel
> with these 5 patches which cherry-picked from 3.15.
> 
> 41bf1a2 jffs2: Fix crash due to truncation of csize
> 3367da5 jffs2: Fix segmentation fault found in stress test
> 01887a3 jffs2: unlock f->sem on error in jffs2_new_inode()
> 13b546d jffs2: avoid soft-lockup in jffs2_reserve_space_gc()
> 3ead957 jffs2: remove from wait queue after schedule()

Have you bisected these? And possibly test the patches in isolation
(there are only 5)?

Brian



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