From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:05:29 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: JFFS2 locking regression fix.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc4~104
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b5748643332bf75274e0b639926d57e86fb133cf;p=linux-2.6

JFFS2 locking regression fix.

Commit a491486a2087ac3dfc00efb4f838c8d684afaf54 introduced a locking
problem in JFFS2 -- we up() the alloc_sem when we weren't previously
holding it. This leads to all kinds of fun behaviour later.

There was a _reason_ for the
	if (1 /* alternative path needs testing */ ||
which the above-mentioned commit removed :)

Discovered and debugged by Giulio Fedel <giulio.fedel@andorsystems.com>

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/write.c b/fs/jffs2/write.c
index bc61859336..664c164aa6 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/write.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c
@@ -566,6 +566,9 @@ int jffs2_do_unlink(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_inode_info *dir_f,
 		struct jffs2_full_dirent **prev = &dir_f->dents;
 		uint32_t nhash = full_name_hash(name, namelen);
 
+		/* We don't actually want to reserve any space, but we do
+		   want to be holding the alloc_sem when we write to flash */
+		down(&c->alloc_sem);
 		down(&dir_f->sem);
 
 		while ((*prev) && (*prev)->nhash <= nhash) {