UBI: allocate memory with GFP_NOFS

Use GFP_NOFS flag when allocating memory on I/O path, because otherwise
we may deadlock the filesystem which works on top of us. We observed
the deadlocks with UBIFS. Example:

VFS->FS lock a lock->UBI->kmalloc()->VFS writeback->FS locks the same
lock again.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
index 5959f91be240..329663188772 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h
@@ -439,16 +439,18 @@ int ubi_io_write_vid_hdr(const struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum,
 /**
  * ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr - allocate a volume identifier header object.
  * @ubi: UBI device description object
+ * @gfp_flags: GFP flags to allocate with
  *
  * This function returns a pointer to the newly allocated and zero-filled
  * volume identifier header object in case of success and %NULL in case of
  * failure.
  */
-static inline struct ubi_vid_hdr *ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr(const struct ubi_device *ubi)
+static inline struct ubi_vid_hdr *
+ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr(const struct ubi_device *ubi, gfp_t gfp_flags)
 {
         void *vid_hdr;
 
-        vid_hdr = kzalloc(ubi->vid_hdr_alsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+        vid_hdr = kzalloc(ubi->vid_hdr_alsize, gfp_flags);
         if (!vid_hdr)
                 return NULL;