linux-kernel - [PATCH] reiserfs: Fix mistake in down

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Date:	Sun,  3 Jan 2010 03:55:47 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH] reiserfs: Fix mistake in down_write() conversion

Fix a mistake in commit 0719d3434747889b314a1e8add776418c4148bcf
(reiserfs: Fix reiserfs lock <-> i_xattr_sem dependency inversion)
that has converted a down_write() into a down_read() accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index 9623cfe..75d3706 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ reiserfs_xattr_set_handle(struct reiserfs_transaction_handle *th,
 		return PTR_ERR(dentry);
 	}
 
-	down_read(&REISERFS_I(inode)->i_xattr_sem);
+	down_write(&REISERFS_I(inode)->i_xattr_sem);
 
 	reiserfs_write_lock(inode->i_sb);
 
-- 
1.6.2.3

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