This patch ensures that we always wait for glock demotion when dropping flocks on a file in order to prevent any race conditions associated with further flock calls or closing the file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <[email protected]> diff --git a/fs/gfs2/file.c b/fs/gfs2/file.c index 216ad27..2878481 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/file.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/file.c @@ -981,8 +981,10 @@ static void do_unflock(struct file *file, struct file_lock *fl) mutex_lock(&fp->f_fl_mutex); flock_lock_file_wait(file, fl); - if (fl_gh->gh_gl) - gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(fl_gh); + if (fl_gh->gh_gl) { + gfs2_glock_dq_wait(fl_gh); + gfs2_holder_uninit(fl_gh); + } mutex_unlock(&fp->f_fl_mutex); } -- 1.7.4
