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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2008-04-15 17:34:43 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-15 22:35:41 -0400
commit335e92e8a515420bd47a6b0f01cb9a206c0ed6e4 (patch)
tree1518f9afa7ac7047be2c86481b3dbc12f8cc9282 /fs/ext4
parent423bec43079a2942a3004034df7aad76469758d8 (diff)
vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs
mb_cache_entry_alloc() was allocating cache entries with GFP_KERNEL. But filesystems are calling this function while holding xattr_sem so possible recursion into the fs violates locking ordering of xattr_sem and transaction start / i_mutex for ext2-4. Change mb_cache_entry_alloc() so that filesystems can specify desired gfp mask and use GFP_NOFS from all of them. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/xattr.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index d7962139c010..e9054c1c7d93 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ ext4_xattr_cache_insert(struct buffer_head *bh)
1386 struct mb_cache_entry *ce; 1386 struct mb_cache_entry *ce;
1387 int error; 1387 int error;
1388 1388
1389 ce = mb_cache_entry_alloc(ext4_xattr_cache); 1389 ce = mb_cache_entry_alloc(ext4_xattr_cache, GFP_NOFS);
1390 if (!ce) { 1390 if (!ce) {
1391 ea_bdebug(bh, "out of memory"); 1391 ea_bdebug(bh, "out of memory");
1392 return; 1392 return;