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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

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);
 	}
 
 	/*