From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:40:39 +0000 (+0100) Subject: reiserfs: Safely acquire i_mutex from xattr_rmdir X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=835d5247d98f46e35d007dcfa6215e526ca33360;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git reiserfs: Safely acquire i_mutex from xattr_rmdir Relax the reiserfs lock before taking the inode mutex from xattr_rmdir() to avoid the usual reiserfs lock <-> inode mutex bad dependency. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Tested-by: Christian Kujau Cc: Alexander Beregalov Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c index bfdac66fd8e2..9623cfe2371c 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ static int xattr_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&dir->i_mutex)); vfs_dq_init(dir); - mutex_lock_nested(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD); + reiserfs_mutex_lock_nested_safe(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex, + I_MUTEX_CHILD, dir->i_sb); dentry_unhash(dentry); error = dir->i_op->rmdir(dir, dentry); if (!error)