From b0afbbec4981417f79e05865a36e57abfc289002 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Bityutskiy Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:07:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [JFFS2] fix deadlock on error path When the MTD driver returns write failure, the following deadlock occurs: 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 Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- fs/jffs2/erase.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jffs2/erase.c b/fs/jffs2/erase.c index ad0121088d..6b1f7bee36 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; -- 2.39.5