From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Tue May 15 20:55:43 2007 From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: stable@kernel.org Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:53:36 -0500 Message-Id: <1179287616.8339.8.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: JFS: Fix race waking up jfsIO kernel thread It's possible for a journal I/O request to be added to the log_redrive queue and the jfsIO thread to be awakened after the thread releases log_redrive_lock but before it sets its state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. The jfsIO thread should set the state before giving up the spinlock, so the waking thread will really wake it. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> --- fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.21.1.orig/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c +++ linux-2.6.21.1/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c @@ -2354,12 +2354,13 @@ int jfsIOWait(void *arg) lbmStartIO(bp); spin_lock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); } - spin_unlock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); if (freezing(current)) { + spin_unlock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); refrigerator(); } else { set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + spin_unlock_irq(&log_redrive_lock); schedule(); current->state = TASK_RUNNING; }