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/xattr.c b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
index fb89c29..a6ea4d6 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@
ce = NULL;
}
ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "cloning");
- s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
error = -ENOMEM;
if (s->base == NULL)
goto cleanup;
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@
}
} else {
/* Allocate a buffer where we construct the new block. */
- s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_NOFS);
/* assert(header == s->base) */
error = -ENOMEM;
if (s->base == NULL)