Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:04:45 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside |
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On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:19:15PM +0300, 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.
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