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| author | Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> | 2008-03-19 17:00:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-19 18:53:36 -0700 |
| commit | c587f0c0a69227587baaa12e75815b6644457c0a (patch) | |
| tree | 5ef93bd6d73fdab6084de20988b8934dbc10ae08 /fs/ext3/xattr.c | |
| parent | ffda6857c87fbe3ab144ff3f34b89421eed048cf (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext3/xattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext3/xattr.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext3/xattr.c b/fs/ext3/xattr.c index fb89c299bece..a6ea4d6a8bb2 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext3/xattr.c @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ext3_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, 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 @@ ext3_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, } } 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) |