jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin
jffs2_write_begin() first acquires the page lock, then f->sem. This
causes an AB-BA deadlock with jffs2_garbage_collect_live(), which first
acquires f->sem, then the page lock:
jffs2_garbage_collect_live
    mutex_lock(&f->sem)                         (A)
    jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode
        jffs2_gc_fetch_page
            read_cache_page_async
                do_read_cache_page
                    lock_page(page)             (B)
jffs2_write_begin
    grab_cache_page_write_begin
        find_lock_page
            lock_page(page)                     (B)
    mutex_lock(&f->sem)                         (A)
We fix this by restructuring jffs2_write_begin() to take f->sem before
the page lock. However, we make sure that f->sem is not held when
calling jffs2_reserve_space(), as this is not permitted by the locking
rules.
The deadlock above was observed multiple times on an SoC with a dual
ARMv7 (Cortex-A9), running the long-term 3.4.11 kernel; it occurred
when using scp to copy files from a host system to the ARM target
system. The fix was heavily tested on the same target system.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by:  Thomas Betker <thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com>
Acked-by:
Thomas Betker <thomas.betker@rohde-schwarz.com>
Acked-by:  Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by:
Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by:  Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
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