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Date:	Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:43:23 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander Viro <aviro@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: vfs: Use GFP_NOFS in posix_acl_from_xattr()

>>From bf48ad624f8917d97cd179a997c4fab7249f0a63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:31:03 +0100
Subject: vfs: Use GFP_NOFS in posix_acl_from_xattr()

GFS2 needs to call this from under a glock, so we need GFP_NOFS
and I suspect that other filesystems might require this too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
---
 fs/xattr_acl.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr_acl.c b/fs/xattr_acl.c
index c6ad7c7..05ac0fe 100644
--- a/fs/xattr_acl.c
+++ b/fs/xattr_acl.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ posix_acl_from_xattr(const void *value, size_t size)
 	if (count == 0)
 		return NULL;
 	
-	acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!acl)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	acl_e = acl->a_entries;
-- 
1.6.2.5



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