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authorFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>2018-12-13 21:16:56 +0000
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>2019-02-25 14:13:17 +0100
commita0873490660246db587849a9e172f2b7b21fa88a (patch)
treeff19cf14a965fd30576f37ced859a19856d0f79a
parentb89f6d1fcb30a8cbdc18ce00c7d93792076af453 (diff)
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Btrfs: setup a nofs context for memory allocation at __btrfs_set_acl
We are holding a transaction handle when setting an acl, therefore we can not allocate the xattr value buffer using GFP_KERNEL, as we could deadlock if reclaim is triggered by the allocation, therefore setup a nofs context. Fixes: 39a27ec1004e8 ("btrfs: use GFP_KERNEL for xattr and acl allocations") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.9+ Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/btrfs/acl.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/acl.c b/fs/btrfs/acl.c
index 3b66c957ea6f..5810463dc6d2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/acl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/acl.c
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>
#include <linux/posix_acl.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "ctree.h"
@@ -72,8 +73,16 @@ static int __btrfs_set_acl(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
}
if (acl) {
+ unsigned int nofs_flag;
+
size = posix_acl_xattr_size(acl->a_count);
+ /*
+ * We're holding a transaction handle, so use a NOFS memory
+ * allocation context to avoid deadlock if reclaim happens.
+ */
+ nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
value = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
if (!value) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;