It's not needed until we start trying to modifying fields in the journal_head which are protected by j_list_lock. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/transaction.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c index 78900a1..357f3dc 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c @@ -1073,7 +1073,6 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_create_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) * reused here. */ jbd_lock_bh_state(bh); - spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); J_ASSERT_JH(jh, (jh->b_transaction == transaction || jh->b_transaction == NULL || (jh->b_transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction && @@ -1096,12 +1095,14 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_create_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh) jh->b_modified = 0; JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "file as BJ_Reserved"); + spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); __jbd2_journal_file_buffer(jh, transaction, BJ_Reserved); } else if (jh->b_transaction == journal->j_committing_transaction) { /* first access by this transaction */ jh->b_modified = 0; JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "set next transaction"); + spin_lock(&journal->j_list_lock); jh->b_next_transaction = transaction; } spin_unlock(&journal->j_list_lock); -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html