This contains two important JFFS2 fixes marked for stable:

• a lock ordering problem between the page lock and the internal f->sem
    mutex, which was causing occasional deadlocks in garbage collection, and
  • a scan failure causing moved directories to sometimes end up appearing
    to have hard links.
 
 There are also a couple of trivial MAINTAINERS file updates.
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20160304' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

Pull jffs2 fixes from David Woodhouse:
 "This contains two important JFFS2 fixes marked for stable:

   - a lock ordering problem between the page lock and the internal
     f->sem mutex, which was causing occasional deadlocks in garbage
     collection

   - a scan failure causing moved directories to sometimes end up
     appearing to have hard links.

  There are also a couple of trivial MAINTAINERS file updates"

* tag 'for-linus-20160304' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainer entry for FREESCALE GPMI NAND driver
  Fix directory hardlinks from deleted directories
  jffs2: Fix page lock / f->sem deadlock
  Revert "jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin"
  MAINTAINERS: update Han's email

MAINTAINERS

@@ -4518,6 +4518,12 @@ L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/dma/fsldma.*
 
+FREESCALE GPMI NAND DRIVER
+M:	Han Xu <han.xu@nxp.com>
+L:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
+S:	Maintained
+F:	drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/*
+
 FREESCALE I2C CPM DRIVER
 M:	Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
 L:	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
@@ -4534,7 +4540,7 @@ F:	include/linux/platform_data/video-imxfb.h
 F:	drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c
 
 FREESCALE QUAD SPI DRIVER
-M:	Han Xu <han.xu@freescale.com>
+M:	Han Xu <han.xu@nxp.com>
 L:	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
 S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/mtd/spi-nor/fsl-quadspi.c

fs/jffs2/README.Locking

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
 	JFFS2 LOCKING DOCUMENTATION
 	---------------------------
 
-At least theoretically, JFFS2 does not require the Big Kernel Lock
-(BKL), which was always helpfully obtained for it by Linux 2.4 VFS
-code. It has its own locking, as described below.
-
 This document attempts to describe the existing locking rules for
 JFFS2. It is not expected to remain perfectly up to date, but ought to
 be fairly close.
@@ -69,6 +65,7 @@ Ordering constraints:
 	   any f->sem held.
 	2. Never attempt to lock two file mutexes in one thread.
 	   No ordering rules have been made for doing so.
+	3. Never lock a page cache page with f->sem held.
 
 
 	erase_completion_lock spinlock

fs/jffs2/build.c

@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ next_inode(int *i, struct jffs2_inode_cache *ic, struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 
 
 static void jffs2_build_inode_pass1(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
-				    struct jffs2_inode_cache *ic)
+				    struct jffs2_inode_cache *ic,
+				    int *dir_hardlinks)
 {
 	struct jffs2_full_dirent *fd;
 
@@ -69,19 +70,21 @@ static void jffs2_build_inode_pass1(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 			dbg_fsbuild("child \"%s\" (ino #%u) of dir ino #%u doesn't exist!\n",
 				  fd->name, fd->ino, ic->ino);
 			jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, fd->raw);
+			/* Clear the ic/raw union so it doesn't cause problems later. */
+			fd->ic = NULL;
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		if (fd->type == DT_DIR) {
+		/* From this point, fd->raw is no longer used so we can set fd->ic */
-			if (child_ic->pino_nlink) {
+		fd->ic = child_ic;
-				JFFS2_ERROR("child dir \"%s\" (ino #%u) of dir ino #%u appears to be a hard link\n",
-					    fd->name, fd->ino, ic->ino);
-				/* TODO: What do we do about it? */
-			} else {
-				child_ic->pino_nlink = ic->ino;
-			}
-		} else
 		child_ic->pino_nlink++;
+		/* If we appear (at this stage) to have hard-linked directories,
+		 * set a flag to trigger a scan later */
+		if (fd->type == DT_DIR) {
+			child_ic->flags |= INO_FLAGS_IS_DIR;
+			if (child_ic->pino_nlink > 1)
+				*dir_hardlinks = 1;
+		}
 
 		dbg_fsbuild("increased nlink for child \"%s\" (ino #%u)\n", fd->name, fd->ino);
 		/* Can't free scan_dents so far. We might need them in pass 2 */
@@ -95,8 +98,7 @@ static void jffs2_build_inode_pass1(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 */
 static int jffs2_build_filesystem(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 {
-	int ret;
+	int ret, i, dir_hardlinks = 0;
-	int i;
 	struct jffs2_inode_cache *ic;
 	struct jffs2_full_dirent *fd;
 	struct jffs2_full_dirent *dead_fds = NULL;
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ static int jffs2_build_filesystem(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 	/* Now scan the directory tree, increasing nlink according to every dirent found. */
 	for_each_inode(i, c, ic) {
 		if (ic->scan_dents) {
-			jffs2_build_inode_pass1(c, ic);
+			jffs2_build_inode_pass1(c, ic, &dir_hardlinks);
 			cond_resched();
 		}
 	}
@@ -156,6 +158,20 @@ static int jffs2_build_filesystem(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 	}
 
 	dbg_fsbuild("pass 2a complete\n");
+
+	if (dir_hardlinks) {
+		/* If we detected directory hardlinks earlier, *hopefully*
+		 * they are gone now because some of the links were from
+		 * dead directories which still had some old dirents lying
+		 * around and not yet garbage-collected, but which have
+		 * been discarded above. So clear the pino_nlink field
+		 * in each directory, so that the final scan below can
+		 * print appropriate warnings. */
+		for_each_inode(i, c, ic) {
+			if (ic->flags & INO_FLAGS_IS_DIR)
+				ic->pino_nlink = 0;
+		}
+	}
 	dbg_fsbuild("freeing temporary data structures\n");
 
 	/* Finally, we can scan again and free the dirent structs */
@@ -163,6 +179,33 @@ static int jffs2_build_filesystem(struct jffs2_sb_info *c)
 		while(ic->scan_dents) {
 			fd = ic->scan_dents;
 			ic->scan_dents = fd->next;
+			/* We do use the pino_nlink field to count nlink of
+			 * directories during fs build, so set it to the
+			 * parent ino# now. Now that there's hopefully only
+			 * one. */
+			if (fd->type == DT_DIR) {
+				if (!fd->ic) {
+					/* We'll have complained about it and marked the coresponding
+					   raw node obsolete already. Just skip it. */
+					continue;
+				}
+
+				/* We *have* to have set this in jffs2_build_inode_pass1() */
+				BUG_ON(!(fd->ic->flags & INO_FLAGS_IS_DIR));
+
+				/* We clear ic->pino_nlink ∀ directories' ic *only* if dir_hardlinks
+				 * is set. Otherwise, we know this should never trigger anyway, so
+				 * we don't do the check. And ic->pino_nlink still contains the nlink
+				 * value (which is 1). */
+				if (dir_hardlinks && fd->ic->pino_nlink) {
+					JFFS2_ERROR("child dir \"%s\" (ino #%u) of dir ino #%u is also hard linked from dir ino #%u\n",
+						    fd->name, fd->ino, ic->ino, fd->ic->pino_nlink);
+					/* Should we unlink it from its previous parent? */
+				}
+
+				/* For directories, ic->pino_nlink holds that parent inode # */
+				fd->ic->pino_nlink = ic->ino;
+			}
 			jffs2_free_full_dirent(fd);
 		}
 		ic->scan_dents = NULL;
@@ -241,10 +284,6 @@ static void jffs2_build_remove_unlinked_inode(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 
 			/* Reduce nlink of the child. If it's now zero, stick it on the
 			   dead_fds list to be cleaned up later. Else just free the fd */
-
-			if (fd->type == DT_DIR)
-				child_ic->pino_nlink = 0;
-			else
 			child_ic->pino_nlink--;
 
 			if (!child_ic->pino_nlink) {

fs/jffs2/file.c

@@ -137,39 +137,33 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
 	struct page *pg;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	struct jffs2_inode_info *f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
-	struct jffs2_sb_info *c = JFFS2_SB_INFO(inode->i_sb);
-	struct jffs2_raw_inode ri;
-	uint32_t alloc_len = 0;
 	pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 	uint32_t pageofs = index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	pg = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
+	if (!pg)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	*pagep = pg;
+
 	jffs2_dbg(1, "%s()\n", __func__);
 
 	if (pageofs > inode->i_size) {
-		ret = jffs2_reserve_space(c, sizeof(ri), &alloc_len,
-					  ALLOC_NORMAL, JFFS2_SUMMARY_INODE_SIZE);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
-	}
-
-	mutex_lock(&f->sem);
-	pg = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
-	if (!pg) {
-		if (alloc_len)
-			jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
-		mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-	*pagep = pg;
-
-	if (alloc_len) {
 		/* Make new hole frag from old EOF to new page */
+		struct jffs2_sb_info *c = JFFS2_SB_INFO(inode->i_sb);
+		struct jffs2_raw_inode ri;
 		struct jffs2_full_dnode *fn;
+		uint32_t alloc_len;
 
 		jffs2_dbg(1, "Writing new hole frag 0x%x-0x%x between current EOF and new page\n",
 			  (unsigned int)inode->i_size, pageofs);
 
+		ret = jffs2_reserve_space(c, sizeof(ri), &alloc_len,
+					  ALLOC_NORMAL, JFFS2_SUMMARY_INODE_SIZE);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out_page;
+
+		mutex_lock(&f->sem);
 		memset(&ri, 0, sizeof(ri));
 
 		ri.magic = cpu_to_je16(JFFS2_MAGIC_BITMASK);
@@ -196,6 +190,7 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
 		if (IS_ERR(fn)) {
 			ret = PTR_ERR(fn);
 			jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
+			mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 			goto out_page;
 		}
 		ret = jffs2_add_full_dnode_to_inode(c, f, fn);
@@ -210,10 +205,12 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
 			jffs2_mark_node_obsolete(c, fn->raw);
 			jffs2_free_full_dnode(fn);
 			jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
+			mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 			goto out_page;
 		}
 		jffs2_complete_reservation(c);
 		inode->i_size = pageofs;
+		mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -222,18 +219,18 @@ static int jffs2_write_begin(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping,
 	 * case of a short-copy.
 	 */
 	if (!PageUptodate(pg)) {
+		mutex_lock(&f->sem);
 		ret = jffs2_do_readpage_nolock(inode, pg);
+		mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out_page;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 	jffs2_dbg(1, "end write_begin(). pg->flags %lx\n", pg->flags);
 	return ret;
 
 out_page:
 	unlock_page(pg);
 	page_cache_release(pg);
-	mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 	return ret;
 }
 

fs/jffs2/gc.c

@@ -1296,14 +1296,17 @@ static int jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode(struct jffs2_sb_info *c, struct jffs2_era
 		BUG_ON(start > orig_start);
 	}
 
-	/* First, use readpage() to read the appropriate page into the page cache */
+	/* The rules state that we must obtain the page lock *before* f->sem, so
-	/* Q: What happens if we actually try to GC the _same_ page for which commit_write()
+	 * drop f->sem temporarily. Since we also hold c->alloc_sem, nothing's
-	 *    triggered garbage collection in the first place?
+	 * actually going to *change* so we're safe; we only allow reading.
-	 * A: I _think_ it's OK. read_cache_page shouldn't deadlock, we'll write out the
+	 *
-	 *    page OK. We'll actually write it out again in commit_write, which is a little
+	 * It is important to note that jffs2_write_begin() will ensure that its
-	 *    suboptimal, but at least we're correct.
+	 * page is marked Uptodate before allocating space. That means that if we
-	 */
+	 * end up here trying to GC the *same* page that jffs2_write_begin() is
+	 * trying to write out, read_cache_page() will not deadlock. */
+	mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
 	pg_ptr = jffs2_gc_fetch_page(c, f, start, &pg);
+	mutex_lock(&f->sem);
 
 	if (IS_ERR(pg_ptr)) {
 		pr_warn("read_cache_page() returned error: %ld\n",

fs/jffs2/nodelist.h

@@ -194,6 +194,7 @@ struct jffs2_inode_cache {
 #define INO_STATE_CLEARING	6	/* In clear_inode() */
 
 #define INO_FLAGS_XATTR_CHECKED	0x01	/* has no duplicate xattr_ref */
+#define INO_FLAGS_IS_DIR	0x02	/* is a directory */
 
 #define RAWNODE_CLASS_INODE_CACHE	0
 #define RAWNODE_CLASS_XATTR_DATUM	1
@@ -249,7 +250,10 @@ struct jffs2_readinode_info
 
 struct jffs2_full_dirent
 {
+	union {
 		struct jffs2_raw_node_ref *raw;
+		struct jffs2_inode_cache *ic; /* Just during part of build */
+	};
 	struct jffs2_full_dirent *next;
 	uint32_t version;
 	uint32_t ino; /* == zero for unlink */