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[JFFS2] Quiet lockdep false positive.

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Don't hold f->sem while calling into jffs2_do_create(). It makes lockdep
unhappy, and we don't really need it -- the _reason_ it's a false
positive is because nobody else can see this inode yet and so nobody
will be trying to lock it anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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David Woodhouse 2008-05-01 15:53:28 +01:00
parent 4e571aba7b
commit 590fe34c47
2 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions
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fs/jffs2/dir.c
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@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ static int jffs2_create(struct inode *dir_i, struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
dir_f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(dir_i);
/* jffs2_do_create() will want to lock it, _after_ reserving
space and taking c-alloc_sem. If we keep it locked here,
lockdep gets unhappy (although it's a false positive;
nothing else will be looking at this inode yet so there's
no chance of AB-BA deadlock involving its f->sem). */
mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
ret = jffs2_do_create(c, dir_f, f, ri,
dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len);
if (ret)

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fs/jffs2/write.c
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@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ int jffs2_do_create(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_inode_info *dir_f, str
ret = jffs2_reserve_space(c, sizeof(*ri), &alloclen, ALLOC_NORMAL,
JFFS2_SUMMARY_INODE_SIZE);
D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_do_create(): reserved 0x%x bytes\n", alloclen));
if (ret) {
mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
mutex_lock(&f->sem);
ri->data_crc = cpu_to_je32(0);
ri->node_crc = cpu_to_je32(crc32(0, ri, sizeof(*ri)-8));