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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-10-31 10:52:24 -0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2008-10-31 10:52:24 -0400
commitb27cf88e9592953ae292d05324887f2f44979433 (patch)
tree9f903a17a08801197127b479429ee2e304898799 /fs
parentf04de505e3fa322728d1a851e08bf7060b117743 (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')
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/background.c10
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