[PATCH] Fix for lockup in reiserfs acl/xattrs
From: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> The following is a patch to fix a locking problem in ACL/xattr code. It manifests when a user attempts to set an xattr on a file which they do not own, and on which an ACL is applied. What happens is this: reiserfs_setxattr [write lock inode xattr sem] ->xattr_set -> lookup -> __reiserfs_permission [if conditions above are met, and need_lock= is unset, read lock inode xattr sem] *lockup* Since we already keep track of when to lock during permission calls, the fix is simple: just make the locking conditional as it was before. Credits to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
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