Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:29:29 -0400 | From | Josh Cartwright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in gc path |
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 08:38:41AM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Josh Cartwright <joshc@linux.com> wrote: > > The locking policy is such that the erase_complete_block spinlock is > > nested within the alloc_sem mutex. This fixes a case in which the > > acquisition order was erroneously reversed. This issue was caught by > > the following lockdep splat: > > (Bump.) Anybody interested in this patch? It seemed sane to me, and I > had it sitting in my inbox. It does need a trivial rebase, BTW.
I'm certainly still interested in it, for what its worth :). We've had no problems here for the month and a half its been in our tree.
I'll send out a rebased V2.
Thanks!
-- joshc
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