| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.1 036/267] ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp | Date | Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:38:07 -0700 |
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4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
commit c45653c341f5c8a0ce19c8f0ad4678640849cb86 upstream.
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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *fun 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 *hand 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_ 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);
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