• Kalpak Shah's avatar
    ext4: fix xattr deadlock · 4d20c685
    Kalpak Shah authored
    ext4_xattr_set_handle() eventually ends up calling
    ext4_mark_inode_dirty() which tries to expand the inode by shifting
    the EAs.  This leads to the xattr_sem being downed again and leading
    to a deadlock.
    
    This patch makes sure that if ext4_xattr_set_handle() is in the
    call-chain, ext4_mark_inode_dirty() will not expand the inode.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    4d20c685
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