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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-08-25 04:24:45 +0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-09-14 09:18:26 +0400
commitae635c0bbd6c10aa62bf5149c6f41add59fbf4d2 (patch)
treea8f3ed7ca8452fba1cb153bdb0e2ec98ea5219e1 /virt
parent08f14fc8963e585e65b71212ce8050607b9b6c36 (diff)
downloadlinux-ae635c0bbd6c10aa62bf5149c6f41add59fbf4d2.tar.xz
kill-the-bkl/reiserfs: fix "reiserfs lock" / "inode mutex" lock inversion dependency
reiserfs_xattr_init is called with the reiserfs write lock held, but if the ".reiserfs_priv" entry is not created, we take the superblock root directory inode mutex until .reiserfs_priv is created. This creates a lock dependency inversion against other sites such as reiserfs_file_release() which takes an inode mutex and the reiserfs lock after. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Cc: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
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