Hello,

It is possible to panic the box by a race condition that exists in the
journalling code where we do not take the j_revoke_lock when traversing the
journal's revoked record list.  This patch has been tested and we haven't seen
the issue yet, its a rather straightforward and correct (at least I think so :)
fix.  Thank you,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


diff --git a/fs/jbd/revoke.c b/fs/jbd/revoke.c
index 62e13c8..317f598 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/revoke.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/revoke.c
@@ -518,6 +518,7 @@ void journal_write_revoke_records(journal_t *journal,
        for (i = 0; i < revoke->hash_size; i++) {
                hash_list = &revoke->hash_table[i];
 
+               spin_lock(&journal->j_revoke_lock);
                while (!list_empty(hash_list)) {
                        record = (struct jbd_revoke_record_s *)
                                hash_list->next;
@@ -528,6 +529,7 @@ void journal_write_revoke_records(journal_t *journal,
                        list_del(&record->hash);
                        kmem_cache_free(revoke_record_cache, record);
                }
+               spin_unlock(&journal->j_revoke_lock);
        }
        if (descriptor)
                flush_descriptor(journal, descriptor, offset);
@@ -694,10 +696,12 @@ void journal_clear_revoke(journal_t *journal)
 
        for (i = 0; i < revoke->hash_size; i++) {
                hash_list = &revoke->hash_table[i];
+               spin_lock(&journal->j_revoke_lock);
                while (!list_empty(hash_list)) {
                        record = (struct jbd_revoke_record_s*) hash_list->next;
                        list_del(&record->hash);
                        kmem_cache_free(revoke_record_cache, record);
                }
+               spin_unlock(&journal->j_revoke_lock);
        }
 }
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