[PATCH] suspend regression: sysfs deadlock

Suspend deadlocks when trying to unregister /sys/block/sr0.

This comes from Oliver's commit 94bebf4d1b8e7719f0f3944c037a21cfd99a4af7
"Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and
read()/write()".

sysfs_write_file downs buffer->sem while calling flush_write_buffer, and
flushing that particular write buffer entails downing buffer->sem in
orphan_all_buffers, resulting in the obvious self-deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index dd1344b007f5..ccb7d722c558 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -227,11 +227,8 @@ static inline void orphan_all_buffers(struct inode *node)
 
         mutex_lock_nested(&node->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
         if (node->i_private) {
-                list_for_each_entry(buf, &set->associates, associates) {
-                        down(&buf->sem);
+                list_for_each_entry(buf, &set->associates, associates)
                         buf->orphaned = 1;
-                        up(&buf->sem);
-                }
         }
         mutex_unlock(&node->i_mutex);
 }