From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:43:21 +0000 (-0400) Subject: ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7c9e3e99adf6c49c5d593a51375916acc039d1e;p=linux-beck.git ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs Smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/) complains about the locking in ext4_mb_add_n_trim() from fs/ext4/mballoc.c 4438 list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order], 4439 pa_inode_list) { 4440 spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock); 4441 if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) { 4442 spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock); 4443 continue; 4444 } Brown paper bag time... Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@kernel.org --- diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 5f3e3a3a38d6..f871677a7984 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -4392,7 +4392,7 @@ static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) pa_inode_list) { spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock); if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) { - spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock); + spin_unlock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock); continue; } if (!added && pa->pa_free < tmp_pa->pa_free) {