From 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 12:00:53 -0800 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [ 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 --- fs/ubifs/file.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ubifs') diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c index fe82d2464d4..bf37374567f 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/file.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c @@ -219,7 +219,8 @@ static void release_existing_page_budget(struct ubifs_info *c) } static int write_begin_slow(struct address_space *mapping, - loff_t pos, unsigned len, struct page **pagep) + loff_t pos, unsigned len, struct page **pagep, + unsigned flags) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct ubifs_info *c = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info; @@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ static int write_begin_slow(struct address_space *mapping, if (unlikely(err)) return err; - page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); + page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags); if (unlikely(!page)) { ubifs_release_budget(c, &req); return -ENOMEM; @@ -438,7 +439,7 @@ static int ubifs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, return -EROFS; /* Try out the fast-path part first */ - page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index); + page = grab_cache_page_write_begin(mapping, index, flags); if (unlikely(!page)) return -ENOMEM; @@ -483,7 +484,7 @@ static int ubifs_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, unlock_page(page); page_cache_release(page); - return write_begin_slow(mapping, pos, len, pagep); + return write_begin_slow(mapping, pos, len, pagep, flags); } /* -- cgit v1.2.3