The thawing of a filesystem through sysrq-j loops infinitely as it incorrectly detects a thawed filesytsem as frozen and tries to unfreeze repeatedly. This is a regression caused by 4504230a71566785a05d3e6b53fa1ee071b864eb ("freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks") in that it no longer returned -EINVAL for superblocks that were not frozen. Return -EINVAL when the filesystem is already unfrozen to avoid this problem. Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -urNp linux-3.5-rc4-orig/fs/block_dev.c linux-3.5-rc4/fs/block_dev.c --- linux-3.5-rc4-orig/fs/block_dev.c 2012-06-27 12:00:47.694616000 +0900 +++ linux-3.5-rc4/fs/block_dev.c 2012-06-29 13:38:23.841352532 +0900 @@ -319,22 +319,20 @@ int thaw_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, if (!bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count) goto out; - error = 0; - if (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0) + if (--bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count > 0) { + error = 0; goto out; + } if (!sb) goto out; 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); -- 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