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Commit b5748643 authored by David Woodhouse's avatar David Woodhouse Committed by Linus Torvalds
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JFFS2 locking regression fix.



Commit a491486a introduced a locking
problem in JFFS2 -- we up() the alloc_sem when we weren't previously
holding it. This leads to all kinds of fun behaviour later.

There was a _reason_ for the
	if (1 /* alternative path needs testing */ ||
which the above-mentioned commit removed :)

Discovered and debugged by Giulio Fedel <giulio.fedel@andorsystems.com>

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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