On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 19:34 -0400, Josh Cartwright wrote: > The locking policy is such that the erase_complete_block spinlock is > nested within the alloc_sem mutex. This fixes a case in which the > acquisition order was erroneously reversed. This issue was caught by > the following lockdep splat: I've added the follwing: This was introduce in '81cfc9f jffs2: Fix serious write stall due to erase'. Cc: stable@kernel.org [2.6.37+] and pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks! CC-in Joakim to let him know that his patch has a bug and that he might want this fix in his system(s) as well. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy