If we're allocating a new space cache inode it's likely going to be under a transaction handle, so we need to use memalloc_nofs_save() in order to avoid deadlocks, and more importantly lockdep messages that make xfstests fail.
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osan...@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jo...@toxicpanda.com> --- fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c index c3888c113d81..e077ad3b4549 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/math64.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> #include <linux/error-injection.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include "ctree.h" #include "free-space-cache.h" #include "transaction.h" @@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ static struct inode *__lookup_free_space_inode(struct btrfs_root *root, struct btrfs_free_space_header *header; struct extent_buffer *leaf; struct inode *inode = NULL; + unsigned nofs_flag; int ret; key.objectid = BTRFS_FREE_SPACE_OBJECTID; @@ -68,7 +70,13 @@ static struct inode *__lookup_free_space_inode(struct btrfs_root *root, btrfs_disk_key_to_cpu(&location, &disk_key); btrfs_release_path(path); + /* + * We are often under a trans handle at this point, so we need to make + * sure NOFS is set to keep us from deadlocking. + */ + nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save(); inode = btrfs_iget(fs_info->sb, &location, root, NULL); + memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag); if (IS_ERR(inode)) return inode; -- 2.14.3