jffs2: Fix page lock / f->sem deadlock

With this fix, all code paths should now be obtaining the page lock before
f->sem.

Reported-by: Szabó Tamás <sztomi89@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Betker <thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/README.Locking b/fs/jffs2/README.Locking
index 3ea36554107f..8918ac905a3b 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/README.Locking
+++ b/fs/jffs2/README.Locking
@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
         JFFS2 LOCKING DOCUMENTATION
         ---------------------------
 
-At least theoretically, JFFS2 does not require the Big Kernel Lock
-(BKL), which was always helpfully obtained for it by Linux 2.4 VFS
-code. It has its own locking, as described below.
-
 This document attempts to describe the existing locking rules for
 JFFS2. It is not expected to remain perfectly up to date, but ought to
 be fairly close.
@@ -69,6 +65,7 @@ Ordering constraints:
            any f->sem held.
         2. Never attempt to lock two file mutexes in one thread.
            No ordering rules have been made for doing so.
+        3. Never lock a page cache page with f->sem held.
 
 
         erase_completion_lock spinlock