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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext2/xattr.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c index 0456bc990b5e..9ad07c7ef0b3 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c @@ -790,7 +790,15 @@ ext2_xattr_delete_inode(struct inode *inode) struct buffer_head *bh = NULL; struct ext2_sb_info *sbi = EXT2_SB(inode->i_sb); - down_write(&EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem); + /* + * We are the only ones holding inode reference. The xattr_sem should + * better be unlocked! We could as well just not acquire xattr_sem at + * all but this makes the code more futureproof. OTOH we need trylock + * here to avoid false-positive warning from lockdep about reclaim + * circular dependency. + */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!down_write_trylock(&EXT2_I(inode)->xattr_sem))) + return; if (!EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl) goto cleanup; |