UBI leb_write_unlock NULL pointer Oops (continuation)
Bill Pringlemeir
bpringlemeir at nbsps.com
Wed Mar 5 16:42:12 EST 2014
On 5 Mar 2014, bpringlemeir at nbsps.com wrote:
> On 5 Mar 2014, richard at nod.at wrote:
>> The solution is rather trivial.
[snip]
> Still, the logic of ubi_eba_copy_leb() seems really weird to me. I
> don't understand,
> It looks like a double reference count decrement. Maybe they operate on
> different ltree nodes, but then the locks mis-match.
if (down_write_trylock(&le->mutex))
return 0;
Ah, I mis-understood. The path where the lock is taken doesn't
decrement the 'users' count; I was thinking of '0' as fail.
Regards,
Bill Pringlemeir.
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