ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
commitc3d82093749274b9f86d9a058372cccb9eed3ac0
authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:05:02 +0000 (1 18:05 +0000)
committerChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:36:52 +0000 (27 10:36 -0700)
tree241d0209e0b2f9304d1205b21ab57f8629ba7149
parent45b143c7050b475a911d6a3bf587ae72d075b0c5
ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs

upstream commit: e7c9e3e99adf6c49c5d593a51375916acc039d1e

Smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/) complains about the locking in
ext4_mb_add_n_trim() from fs/ext4/mballoc.c

  4438          list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order],
  4439                                                  pa_inode_list) {
  4440                  spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);
  4441                  if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) {
  4442                          spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock);
  4443                          continue;
  4444                  }

Brown paper bag time...

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
fs/ext4/mballoc.c