From: Nikolay Borisov <[email protected]> 3.4.111-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <[email protected]> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index bbe09a9..e05cb4c 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -699,7 +699,8 @@ ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block, path[ppos].p_depth = i; path[ppos].p_ext = NULL; - bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, path[ppos].p_block); + bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, path[ppos].p_block, + __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS); if (unlikely(!bh)) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto err; @@ -904,7 +905,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, err = -EIO; goto cleanup; } - bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock); + bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS); if (!bh) { err = -ENOMEM; goto cleanup; @@ -1088,7 +1089,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, 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 (!bh) return -ENOMEM; lock_buffer(bh); -- 1.9.1
