[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 083/130] ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Fri Sep 04 2015 - 09:32:33 EST


3.16.7-ckt17 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 a2c5bb7e71bb..ba5d7dc47b3e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ __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);

@@ -1061,7 +1061,7 @@ 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;
@@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@ 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);
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