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UBI: fix deadlock 

We cannot call 'ubi_wl_get_peb()' with @ubi->buf_mutex locked,
because 'ubi_wl_get_peb()' may force erasure, which, in turn,
may call 'torture_peb()' which also locks the @ubi->buf_mutex
and deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
This commit is contained in:
Artem Bityutskiy 2008-12-04 20:52:44 +02:00
parent ed45819f31
commit 4df581f3dc
1 changed files with 7 additions and 7 deletions
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drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c
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@ -504,12 +504,9 @@ static int recover_peb(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum, int vol_id, int lnum,
if (!vid_hdr)
return -ENOMEM;
mutex_lock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
retry:
new_pnum = ubi_wl_get_peb(ubi, UBI_UNKNOWN);
if (new_pnum < 0) {
mutex_unlock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
return new_pnum;
}
@ -529,20 +526,23 @@ retry:
goto write_error;
data_size = offset + len;
mutex_lock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
memset(ubi->peb_buf1 + offset, 0xFF, len);
/* Read everything before the area where the write failure happened */
if (offset > 0) {
err = ubi_io_read_data(ubi, ubi->peb_buf1, pnum, 0, offset);
if (err && err != UBI_IO_BITFLIPS)
goto out_put;
goto out_unlock;
}
memcpy(ubi->peb_buf1 + offset, buf, len);
err = ubi_io_write_data(ubi, ubi->peb_buf1, new_pnum, 0, data_size);
if (err)
if (err) {
mutex_unlock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
goto write_error;
}
mutex_unlock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
@ -553,8 +553,9 @@ retry:
ubi_msg("data was successfully recovered");
return 0;
out_put:
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
out_put:
ubi_wl_put_peb(ubi, new_pnum, 1);
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
return err;
@ -567,7 +568,6 @@ write_error:
ubi_warn("failed to write to PEB %d", new_pnum);
ubi_wl_put_peb(ubi, new_pnum, 1);
if (++tries > UBI_IO_RETRIES) {
mutex_unlock(&ubi->buf_mutex);
ubi_free_vid_hdr(ubi, vid_hdr);
return err;
}