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authorNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>2015-07-02 01:34:07 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2015-07-02 01:34:07 -0400
commitc45653c341f5c8a0ce19c8f0ad4678640849cb86 (patch)
treed57e0b0ba55d14ceb27aa7b2831341e68a5deeca /fs/ext4
parentbd7ade3cd9b0850264306f5c2b79024a417b6396 (diff)
downloadlinux-c45653c341f5c8a0ce19c8f0ad4678640849cb86.tar.bz2
ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp
Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added to fix possible deadlocks in the page writeback path. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/extents.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index d86d2622f826..69af30e0d75d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *function, unsigned int line,
struct buffer_head *bh;
int err;
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, pblk);
+ bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, pblk, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
if (unlikely(!bh))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
err = -EIO;
goto cleanup;
}
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock);
+ bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
if (unlikely(!bh)) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto cleanup;
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
if (newblock == 0)
return err;
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock);
+ bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
if (unlikely(!bh))
return -ENOMEM;
lock_buffer(bh);