ext4: fix locking typo in mballoc which could cause soft lockup hangs
Smatch (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/) complains about the locking in ext4_mb_add_n_trim() from fs/ext4/mballoc.c 4438 list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order], 4439 pa_inode_list) { 4440 spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock); 4441 if (tmp_pa->pa_deleted) { 4442 spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock); 4443 continue; 4444 } Brown paper bag time... Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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