[PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside
This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in
ext3_symlink(). Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from
try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal
handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable.
This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages.
http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115
Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 51c0c93..128d008 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1664,6 +1664,8 @@
extern int page_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int);
extern void *page_follow_link_light(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
extern void page_put_link(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *);
+extern int __page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len,
+ gfp_t gfp_mask);
extern int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len);
extern struct inode_operations page_symlink_inode_operations;
extern int generic_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int);