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| author | Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> | 2018-12-10 17:53:35 +0000 |
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| committer | David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> | 2018-12-17 14:51:49 +0100 |
| commit | 827aa18e7b903c5ff3b3cd8fec328a99b1dbd411 (patch) | |
| tree | 0681add9c902a36a0442cc5c542c1fe230ba74bb /fs/btrfs | |
| parent | 0568e82dbe2510fc1fa664f58e5c997d3f1e649e (diff) | |
Btrfs: use nofs context when initializing security xattrs to avoid deadlock
When initializing the security xattrs, we are holding a transaction handle
therefore we need to use a GFP_NOFS context in order to avoid a deadlock
with reclaim in case it's triggered.
Fixes: 39a27ec1004e8 ("btrfs: use GFP_KERNEL for xattr and acl allocations")
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/btrfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/btrfs/xattr.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/xattr.c b/fs/btrfs/xattr.c index ea78c3d6dcfc..f141b45ce349 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/xattr.c @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <linux/security.h> #include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h> #include <linux/iversion.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include "ctree.h" #include "btrfs_inode.h" #include "transaction.h" @@ -422,9 +423,15 @@ static int btrfs_initxattrs(struct inode *inode, { const struct xattr *xattr; struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans = fs_info; + unsigned int nofs_flag; char *name; int err = 0; + /* + * We're holding a transaction handle, so use a NOFS memory allocation + * context to avoid deadlock if reclaim happens. + */ + nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save(); for (xattr = xattr_array; xattr->name != NULL; xattr++) { name = kmalloc(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN + strlen(xattr->name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -440,6 +447,7 @@ static int btrfs_initxattrs(struct inode *inode, if (err < 0) break; } + memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag); return err; } |