ext3: fix wrong gfp type under transaction
There are several places where we make allocations with GFP_KERNEL while under
a transaction, which could lead to an assertion panic or lockup if under
memory pressure. This patch switches these problem areas to use GFP_NOFS to
keep these problems from happening.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@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>
diff --git a/fs/ext3/acl.c b/fs/ext3/acl.c
index d34e996..a754d18 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/acl.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
if (count == 0)
return NULL;
- acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
+ acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_NOFS);
if (!acl)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
for (n=0; n < count; n++) {
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
*size = ext3_acl_size(acl->a_count);
ext_acl = kmalloc(sizeof(ext3_acl_header) + acl->a_count *
- sizeof(ext3_acl_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
+ sizeof(ext3_acl_entry), GFP_NOFS);
if (!ext_acl)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
ext_acl->a_version = cpu_to_le32(EXT3_ACL_VERSION);
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
}
retval = ext3_xattr_get(inode, name_index, "", NULL, 0);
if (retval > 0) {
- value = kmalloc(retval, GFP_KERNEL);
+ value = kmalloc(retval, GFP_NOFS);
if (!value)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
retval = ext3_xattr_get(inode, name_index, "", value, retval);
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
if (error)
goto cleanup;
}
- clone = posix_acl_clone(acl, GFP_KERNEL);
+ clone = posix_acl_clone(acl, GFP_NOFS);
error = -ENOMEM;
if (!clone)
goto cleanup;
