ext3_xattr_delete_inode is called from ext3_free_inode which always
has exclusive access to the inode, so there is no need to take the
xattr semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6.11-latest/fs/ext3/xattr.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11-latest.orig/fs/ext3/xattr.c
+++ linux-2.6.11-latest/fs/ext3/xattr.c
@@ -1066,7 +1066,6 @@ ext3_xattr_delete_inode(handle_t *handle
{
struct buffer_head *bh = NULL;
- down_write(&EXT3_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
if (!EXT3_I(inode)->i_file_acl)
goto cleanup;
bh = sb_bread(inode->i_sb, EXT3_I(inode)->i_file_acl);
@@ -1088,7 +1087,6 @@ ext3_xattr_delete_inode(handle_t *handle
cleanup:
brelse(bh);
- up_write(&EXT3_I(inode)->xattr_sem);
}
/*
--
Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX PRODUCTS GMBH