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| author | David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> | 2007-08-20 11:05:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-08-22 16:23:27 -0700 |
| commit | 1d8715b388c978b0f1b1bf4812fcee0e73b023d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 36d8dd95075849be6b7d23953130cfc59bf9c2ef /Documentation | |
| parent | dad2f19424a2f4d30009e5aa51aca05a0bba7020 (diff) | |
JFFS2 locking regression fix.
Commit a491486a2087ac3dfc00efb4f838c8d684afaf54 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 <giulio.fedel@andorsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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