From 0adb25d2e71ab047423d6fc63d5d184590d0a66f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirill Korotaev Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:27:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in ext3_symlink(). Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable. This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages. http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115 Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext3/namei.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ext3') diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c index 8bd8ac0..b8f5cd1 100644 --- a/fs/ext3/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c @@ -2141,7 +2141,8 @@ retry: * We have a transaction open. All is sweetness. It also sets * i_size in generic_commit_write(). */ - err = page_symlink(inode, symname, l); + err = __page_symlink(inode, symname, l, + mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS); if (err) { ext3_dec_count(handle, inode); ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode); -- cgit v1.1