From c45653c341f5c8a0ce19c8f0ad4678640849cb86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Borisov Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 01:34:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp 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 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index d86d2622f826..69af30e0d75d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *function, unsigned int line, 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 *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 (unlikely(!bh)) { err = -ENOMEM; goto cleanup; @@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ 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 (unlikely(!bh)) return -ENOMEM; lock_buffer(bh); -- 2.30.2