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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2009-01-04 12:00:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-04 13:33:20 -0800 |
| commit | 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e (patch) | |
| tree | b373f3283fe5e197d0df29cd6b645c35adf1076c /include/linux/fs.h | |
| parent | e687d691cb3790d25e31c74f5941fd7c565e9df5 (diff) | |
fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.
The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.
Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).
This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That
just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
logic. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index e2170ee21e1..f2a3010140e 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ enum positive_aop_returns { #define AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE 0x0001 /* will not do a short write */ #define AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND 0x0002 /* called from cont_expand */ +#define AOP_FLAG_NOFS 0x0004 /* used by filesystem to direct + * helper code (eg buffer layer) + * to clear GFP_FS from alloc */ /* * oh the beauties of C type declarations. @@ -2035,7 +2038,7 @@ extern int page_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int); extern void *page_follow_link_light(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *); extern void page_put_link(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *); extern int __page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len, - gfp_t gfp_mask); + int nofs); extern int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len); extern const struct inode_operations page_symlink_inode_operations; extern int generic_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int); |