[PATCH 2/2] ext4: make use of sb_getblk_gfp

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Tue Jun 30 2015 - 02:27:18 EST


Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added, this fixes
possible deadlocks in the page writeback path.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index e003a1e..87ba10d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *function, unsigned int line,
struct buffer_head *bh;
int err;

- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, pblk);
+ bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, pblk, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
if (unlikely(!bh))
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);

@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
err = -EIO;
goto cleanup;
}
- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock);
+ bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
if (unlikely(!bh)) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto cleanup;
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
if (newblock == 0)
return err;

- bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock);
+ bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
if (unlikely(!bh))
return -ENOMEM;
lock_buffer(bh);
--
1.7.1

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