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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/fuse | |
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/fuse')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/fuse/file.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c index 34930a964b82..4c9ee7011265 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/file.c +++ b/fs/fuse/file.c | |||
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ static int fuse_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, | |||
646 | { | 646 | { |
647 | pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; | 647 | pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT; |
648 | 648 | ||
649 | *pagep = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); | 649 | *pagep = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags); |
650 | if (!*pagep) | 650 | if (!*pagep) |
651 | return -ENOMEM; | 651 | return -ENOMEM; |
652 | return 0; | 652 | return 0; |
@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ static ssize_t fuse_fill_write_pages(struct fuse_req *req, | |||
779 | break; | 779 | break; |
780 | 780 | ||
781 | err = -ENOMEM; | 781 | err = -ENOMEM; |
782 | page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); | 782 | page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, 0); |
783 | if (!page) | 783 | if (!page) |
784 | break; | 784 | break; |
785 | 785 | ||