From ae635c0bbd6c10aa62bf5149c6f41add59fbf4d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:24:45 +0200 Subject: 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 Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alexander Beregalov Cc: Laurent Riffard --- fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/reiserfs') diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c index 59870a4751cc..58aa8e75f7f5 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ int reiserfs_xattr_init(struct super_block *s, int mount_flags) goto error; if (!privroot->d_inode && !(mount_flags & MS_RDONLY)) { - mutex_lock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex); + reiserfs_mutex_lock_safe(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex, s); err = create_privroot(REISERFS_SB(s)->priv_root); mutex_unlock(&s->s_root->d_inode->i_mutex); } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b