From 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:00:53 -0800 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ 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 --- fs/ext3/namei.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ext3/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c index 297ea8dfac7c..1dd2abe6313e 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c @@ -2175,8 +2175,7 @@ retry: * We have a transaction open. All is sweetness. It also sets * i_size in generic_commit_write(). */ - err = __page_symlink(inode, symname, l, - mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS); + err = __page_symlink(inode, symname, l, 1); if (err) { drop_nlink(inode); unlock_new_inode(inode); -- cgit v1.2.3