When triggering thaw-filesystems via magic sysrq, the system enters a loop in do_thaw_one(), as thaw_bdev() still returns success if bd_fsfreeze_count == 0. To fix this, let thaw_bdev() always return error (and simplify the code a bit at the same time). Reviewed-by: Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/block_dev.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 08ae993..0e7a8f4 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -302,14 +302,11 @@ int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, struct super_block *sb) error = sb->s_op->thaw_super(sb); else error = thaw_super(sb); - if (error) { + if (error) bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count++; - mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); - return error; - } out: mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_mutex); - return 0; + return error; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(thaw_bdev); -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html