[JFFS2] Quiet lockdep false positive.

Don't hold f->sem while calling into jffs2_do_create(). It makes lockdep
unhappy, and we don't really need it -- the _reason_ it's a false
positive is because nobody else can see this inode yet and so nobody
will be trying to lock it anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/dir.c b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
index c63e7a9..2bba3d3 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/jffs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ static int jffs2_create(struct inode *dir_i, struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
        f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
        dir_f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(dir_i);
 
+       /* jffs2_do_create() will want to lock it, _after_ reserving
+          space and taking c-alloc_sem. If we keep it locked here,
+          lockdep gets unhappy (although it's a false positive;
+          nothing else will be looking at this inode yet so there's
+          no chance of AB-BA deadlock involving its f->sem). */
+       mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
+
        ret = jffs2_do_create(c, dir_f, f, ri,
                              dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len);
        if (ret)

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/write.c b/fs/jffs2/write.c
index 665fce9..87891bd 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/jffs2/write.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/write.c
@@ -438,10 +438,10 @@ int jffs2_do_create(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_inode_info *dir_f, str
        ret = jffs2_reserve_space(c, sizeof(*ri), &alloclen, ALLOC_NORMAL,
                                JFFS2_SUMMARY_INODE_SIZE);
        D1(printk(KERN_DEBUG "jffs2_do_create(): reserved 0x%x bytes\n", alloclen));
-       if (ret) {
-               mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
+       if (ret)
                return ret;
-       }
+
+       mutex_lock(&f->sem);
 
        ri->data_crc = cpu_to_je32(0);
        ri->node_crc = cpu_to_je32(crc32(0, ri, sizeof(*ri)-8));