linux-ext4 - [PATCH 2/2] ext4: make use of sb_getblk

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Message-Id: <1435645609-20387-2-git-send-email-kernel@kyup.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:26:49 +0300
From:	Nikolay Borisov <kernel@...p.com>
To:	tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: make use of sb_getblk_gfp

Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added, this fixes
possible deadlocks in the page writeback path.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@...p.com>
---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index e003a1e..87ba10d 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);
-- 
1.7.1

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