[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/dlm: fix a dead lock

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:13:33PM +0800, Wengang Wang wrote:
> When we have to take both dlm->master_lock and lockres->spinlock,
> take them in order
> 
> lockres->spinlock and then dlm->master_lock.
> 
> The patch fixes a violation of the rule.
> We can simply move taking dlm->master_lock to where we have dropped res->spinlock
> since when we access res->state and free mle memory we don't need master_lock's
> protection.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com>

This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel
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