From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758069Ab2DXWgI (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:36:08 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f51.google.com ([209.85.210.51]:33944 "EHLO mail-pz0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932608Ab2DXWgE (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:36:04 -0400 Message-Id: <20120424223244.871618184@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-19.1 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:33:15 -0700 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Shaohua Li , Theodore Tso , Jan Kara Subject: [ 34/62] jbd2: use GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flush In-Reply-To: <20120424223305.GA7748@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Shaohua Li commit 99aa78466777083255b876293e9e83dec7cd809a upstream. flush request is issued in transaction commit code path, so looks using GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic deadlock issue. I saw btrfs and dm get it right, but ext4, xfs and md are using GFP. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/jbd2/commit.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ start_journal_io: if (commit_transaction->t_need_data_flush && (journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)) - blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); + blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL); /* Done it all: now write the commit record asynchronously. */ if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal, @@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ wait_for_iobuf: if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal, JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT) && journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER) { - blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); + blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL); } if (err)