ext4: Fix deadlock in ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin()

Functions ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin() call
grab_cache_page_write_begin() without AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Thus it
can happen that page reclaim is triggered in that function
and it recurses back into the filesystem (or some other filesystem).
But this can lead to various problems as a transaction is already
started at that point. Add the necessary flag.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11688

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index cbd2ca99d113..51cdd13e1c31 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1368,6 +1368,10 @@ retry:
                 goto out;
         }
 
+        /* We cannot recurse into the filesystem as the transaction is already
+         * started */
+        flags |= AOP_FLAG_NOFS;
+
         page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
         if (!page) {
                 ext4_journal_stop(handle);
@@ -1377,7 +1381,7 @@ retry:
         *pagep = page;
 
         ret = block_write_begin(file, mapping, pos, len, flags, pagep, fsdata,
-                                                        ext4_get_block);
+                                ext4_get_block);
 
         if (!ret && ext4_should_journal_data(inode)) {
                 ret = walk_page_buffers(handle, page_buffers(page),
@@ -2667,6 +2671,9 @@ retry:
                 ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
                 goto out;
         }
+        /* We cannot recurse into the filesystem as the transaction is already
+         * started */
+        flags |= AOP_FLAG_NOFS;
 
         page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags);
         if (!page) {