[JFFS2] fix deadlock on error path
authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:07:05 +0000 (11:07 +0200)
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:53:51 +0000 (13:53 -0400)
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 <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

No differences found