JFFS2 locking regression fix.

Commit a491486 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
kishon · Aug 21, 2007 · b574864 · b574864
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diff --git 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) {