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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-11 13:13:10 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-02-14 19:07:56 +0100
commit175359f89df39f4faed663c8cfd6ee0222d2fa1e (patch)
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reiserfs: Fix softlockup while waiting on an inode
When we wait for an inode through reiserfs_iget(), we hold the reiserfs lock. And waiting for an inode may imply waiting for its writeback. But the inode writeback path may also require the reiserfs lock, which leads to a deadlock. We just need to release the reiserfs lock from reiserfs_iget() to fix this. Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/reiserfs/inode.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
index 9087b10209e6..2df0f5c7c60b 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -1497,9 +1497,11 @@ struct inode *reiserfs_iget(struct super_block *s, const struct cpu_key *key)
args.objectid = key->on_disk_key.k_objectid;
args.dirid = key->on_disk_key.k_dir_id;
+ reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
inode = iget5_locked(s, key->on_disk_key.k_objectid,
reiserfs_find_actor, reiserfs_init_locked_inode,
(void *)(&args));
+ reiserfs_write_lock(s);
if (!inode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);