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* [PATCH] jffs2: fix unbalanced locking
@ 2013-09-23  8:52 Li Zefan
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From: Li Zefan @ 2013-09-23  8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Woodhouse; +Cc: LKML, linux-mtd

In the failure path in jffs2_do_crccheck_inode() the lock isn't released
before returning.

This probably won't cause real bug, because the structure that contains
the lock is freed in this case.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
---
 fs/jffs2/readinode.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
index ae81b01..55cf63d 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
@@ -1425,7 +1425,8 @@ int jffs2_do_crccheck_inode(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_inode_cache *i
 		jffs2_do_clear_inode(c, f);
 	}
 	jffs2_xattr_do_crccheck_inode(c, ic);
-	kfree (f);
+	mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
+	kfree(f);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.8.0.2

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