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author | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-10-31 10:52:24 -0400 |
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committer | David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> | 2008-10-31 10:52:24 -0400 |
commit | b27cf88e9592953ae292d05324887f2f44979433 (patch) | |
tree | 9f903a17a08801197127b479429ee2e304898799 /fs/jffs2/background.c | |
parent | f04de505e3fa322728d1a851e08bf7060b117743 (diff) |
[JFFS2] Fix lack of locking in thread_should_wake()
The thread_should_wake() function trawls through the list of 'very
dirty' eraseblocks, determining whether the background GC thread should
wake. Doing this without holding the appropriate locks is a bad idea.
OLPC Trac #8615
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2/background.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/jffs2/background.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/background.c b/fs/jffs2/background.c index 8adebd3e43c6..3cceef4ad2b7 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/background.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/background.c | |||
@@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_thread(void *_c) | |||
85 | for (;;) { | 85 | for (;;) { |
86 | allow_signal(SIGHUP); | 86 | allow_signal(SIGHUP); |
87 | again: | 87 | again: |
88 | spin_lock(&c->erase_completion_lock); | ||
88 | if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) { | 89 | if (!jffs2_thread_should_wake(c)) { |
89 | set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); | 90 | set_current_state (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); |
91 | spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock); | ||
90 | D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread sleeping...\n")); | 92 | D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_garbage_collect_thread sleeping...\n")); |
91 | /* Yes, there's a race here; we checked jffs2_thread_should_wake() | ||
92 | before setting current->state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. But it doesn't | ||
93 | matter - We don't care if we miss a wakeup, because the GC thread | ||
94 | is only an optimisation anyway. */ | ||
95 | schedule(); | 93 | schedule(); |
96 | } | 94 | } else |
95 | spin_unlock(&c->erase_completion_lock); | ||
96 | |||
97 | 97 | ||
98 | /* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when | 98 | /* This thread is purely an optimisation. But if it runs when |
99 | other things could be running, it actually makes things a | 99 | other things could be running, it actually makes things a |