The allocation happens with GFP_KERNEL after a transaction has been
started, this can potentially cause deadlock if reclaim tries to get the
memory by flushing filesystem data.

The fs_info::qgroup_ulist is not used during transaction start when
quotas are not enabled. The status bit BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED is set
later in btrfs_quota_enable so it's safe to move it before the
transaction start.

Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dste...@suse.com>

v2:
- use qgroup_ulist directly, drop the temporary variable
- update changelog
---
 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
index c1cd5558a646..eb680b715dd6 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
@@ -894,6 +894,12 @@ int btrfs_quota_enable(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
        if (fs_info->quota_root)
                goto out;
 
+       fs_info->qgroup_ulist = ulist_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!fs_info->qgroup_ulist) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        /*
         * 1 for quota root item
         * 1 for BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS item
@@ -909,13 +915,6 @@ int btrfs_quota_enable(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
                goto out;
        }
 
-       fs_info->qgroup_ulist = ulist_alloc(GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!fs_info->qgroup_ulist) {
-               ret = -ENOMEM;
-               btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
-               goto out;
-       }
-
        /*
         * initially create the quota tree
         */
-- 
2.20.1

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