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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2009-01-04 15:00:53 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-04 16:33:20 -0500 |
commit | 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e (patch) | |
tree | b373f3283fe5e197d0df29cd6b645c35adf1076c /fs/ext4/inode.c | |
parent | e687d691cb3790d25e31c74f5941fd7c565e9df5 (diff) |
fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.
The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.
Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).
This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That
just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
logic. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/inode.c')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 7c3325e0b005..6702a49992a6 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c | |||
@@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ retry: | |||
1346 | goto out; | 1346 | goto out; |
1347 | } | 1347 | } |
1348 | 1348 | ||
1349 | page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); | 1349 | page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags); |
1350 | if (!page) { | 1350 | if (!page) { |
1351 | ext4_journal_stop(handle); | 1351 | ext4_journal_stop(handle); |
1352 | ret = -ENOMEM; | 1352 | ret = -ENOMEM; |
@@ -2550,7 +2550,7 @@ retry: | |||
2550 | goto out; | 2550 | goto out; |
2551 | } | 2551 | } |
2552 | 2552 | ||
2553 | page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); | 2553 | page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags); |
2554 | if (!page) { | 2554 | if (!page) { |
2555 | ext4_journal_stop(handle); | 2555 | ext4_journal_stop(handle); |
2556 | ret = -ENOMEM; | 2556 | ret = -ENOMEM; |