Commit 266ae4e6 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'writeback-lock-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux

Pull writeback locking fix from Wu Fengguang:
 "fix unbalanced wb->list_lock in 3.5-rc1"

* tag 'writeback-lock-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux:
  writeback: Fix lock imbalance in writeback_sb_inodes()
parents 7452ca51 ead188f9
...@@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb, ...@@ -664,6 +664,7 @@ static long writeback_sb_inodes(struct super_block *sb,
/* Wait for I_SYNC. This function drops i_lock... */ /* Wait for I_SYNC. This function drops i_lock... */
inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode); inode_sleep_on_writeback(inode);
/* Inode may be gone, start again */ /* Inode may be gone, start again */
spin_lock(&wb->list_lock);
continue; continue;
} }
inode->i_state |= I_SYNC; inode->i_state |= I_SYNC;
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