[PATCH 5/5] reiserfs: Safely acquire i_mutex from xattr_rmdir

[Frederic Weisbecker]

Relax the reiserfs lock before taking the inode mutex from
xattr_rmdir() to avoid the usual reiserfs lock <-> inode mutex
bad dependency.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
index bfdac66..9623cfe 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ static int xattr_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&dir->i_mutex));
 	vfs_dq_init(dir);
 
-	mutex_lock_nested(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
+	reiserfs_mutex_lock_nested_safe(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex,
+					I_MUTEX_CHILD, dir->i_sb);
 	dentry_unhash(dentry);
 	error = dir->i_op->rmdir(dir, dentry);
 	if (!error)
-- 
1.6.2.3

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