Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 03:29:03 EST


On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:08:29AM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> + page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0,
> + mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);

> +int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len)
> +{
> + return __page_symlink(inode, symname, len, GFP_KERNEL);

s/GFP_KERNEL/0/; if somebody has e.g. GFP_NOFS in their mapping flags,
you end up breaking their code. We really pass extra flags to be added
to default ones; page_symlink() should pass 0.
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