Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:38:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in gc path | From | Brian Norris <> |
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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.
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