[PATCH v3] jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 08:26:46 EDT 2012


On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 22:59 +0200, Thomas Betker wrote:
> jffs2_write_begin() first acquires the page lock, then f->sem. This 
> causes an AB-BA deadlock with jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), which first 
> acquires f->sem, then the page lock:

Pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks!

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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