Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:02:07 +0300 | From | Michael Tokarev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside |
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Kirill Korotaev wrote: > This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 > transaction in ext3_symlink(). > Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from > try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current > journal handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable. > > This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages. > > http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115
Is it the same bug as http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113870577100003&r=1&w=2 ?
Thanks.
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