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-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/dir.c7
-rw-r--r--fs/jffs2/write.c6
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jffs2/dir.c b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
index c63e7a96af0..2bba3d3435b 100644
--- 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 665fce9797d..87891bdd791 100644
--- 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));