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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/cifsglob.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h index 50dfd9049370..d78bfcc19156 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h @@ -1391,6 +1391,11 @@ void cifsFileInfo_put(struct cifsFileInfo *cifs_file); struct cifsInodeInfo { bool can_cache_brlcks; struct list_head llist; /* locks helb by this inode */ + /* + * NOTE: Some code paths call down_read(lock_sem) twice, so + * we must always use use cifs_down_write() instead of down_write() + * for this semaphore to avoid deadlocks. + */ struct rw_semaphore lock_sem; /* protect the fields above */ /* BB add in lists for dirty pages i.e. write caching info for oplock */ struct list_head openFileList; |