From eabb26cacdec33ca6f6fcaee762b57c2205169ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Prasad Joshi Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:24:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] logfs: fix deadlock in logfs_get_wblocks, hold and wait on super->s_write_mutex do_logfs_journal_wl_pass() should use GFP_NOFS for memory allocation GC code calls btree_insert32 with GFP_KERNEL while holding a mutex super->s_write_mutex. The same mutex is used in address_space_operations->writepage(), and a call to writepage() could be triggered as a result of memory allocation in btree_insert32, causing a deadlock. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20342 Signed-off-by: Prasad Joshi Cc: Joern Engel Cc: Florian Mickler Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Maciej Rutecki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/logfs/journal.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/logfs/journal.c b/fs/logfs/journal.c index f46ee8b0e135..9da29706f91c 100644 --- a/fs/logfs/journal.c +++ b/fs/logfs/journal.c @@ -828,7 +828,7 @@ void do_logfs_journal_wl_pass(struct super_block *sb) super->s_journal_seg[i] = segno; super->s_journal_ec[i] = ec; logfs_set_segment_reserved(sb, segno); - err = btree_insert32(head, segno, (void *)1, GFP_KERNEL); + err = btree_insert32(head, segno, (void *)1, GFP_NOFS); BUG_ON(err); /* mempool should prevent this */ err = logfs_erase_segment(sb, segno, 1); BUG_ON(err); /* FIXME: remount-ro would be nicer */