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authorWang Guoli <andy.wangguoli@huawei.com>2014-02-12 15:44:54 -0500
committerBrian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>2014-03-11 01:42:28 -0400
commit01887a3a2353f1c2fc7488b871d6df8055acb109 (patch)
tree77e1565fb98aac1f717cc2ef86638d340a0ea382 /fs/jffs2
parent13b546d96207c131eeae15dc7b26c6e7d0f1cad7 (diff)
jffs2: unlock f->sem on error in jffs2_new_inode()
If jffs2_new_inode() succeeds, it returns with f->sem held, and the caller is responsible for releasing the lock. If it fails, it still returns with the lock held, but the caller won't release the lock, which will lead to deadlock. Fix it by releasing the lock in jffs2_new_inode() on error. Signed-off-by: Wang Guoli <andy.wangguoli@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Guoli <andy.wangguoli@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [Brian: not marked for stable; no one observed deadlock, and I don't think it can happen here] Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jffs2')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/fs.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
index a69e426435dd..560821bff038 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c
@@ -457,12 +457,14 @@ struct inode *jffs2_new_inode (struct inode *dir_i, umode_t mode, struct jffs2_r
457 The umask is only applied if there's no default ACL */ 457 The umask is only applied if there's no default ACL */
458 ret = jffs2_init_acl_pre(dir_i, inode, &mode); 458 ret = jffs2_init_acl_pre(dir_i, inode, &mode);
459 if (ret) { 459 if (ret) {
460 make_bad_inode(inode); 460 mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
461 iput(inode); 461 make_bad_inode(inode);
462 return ERR_PTR(ret); 462 iput(inode);
463 return ERR_PTR(ret);
463 } 464 }
464 ret = jffs2_do_new_inode (c, f, mode, ri); 465 ret = jffs2_do_new_inode (c, f, mode, ri);
465 if (ret) { 466 if (ret) {
467 mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
466 make_bad_inode(inode); 468 make_bad_inode(inode);
467 iput(inode); 469 iput(inode);
468 return ERR_PTR(ret); 470 return ERR_PTR(ret);
@@ -479,6 +481,7 @@ struct inode *jffs2_new_inode (struct inode *dir_i, umode_t mode, struct jffs2_r
479 inode->i_size = 0; 481 inode->i_size = 0;
480 482
481 if (insert_inode_locked(inode) < 0) { 483 if (insert_inode_locked(inode) < 0) {
484 mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
482 make_bad_inode(inode); 485 make_bad_inode(inode);
483 iput(inode); 486 iput(inode);
484 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); 487 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);