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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2009-01-04 12:00:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-04 13:33:20 -0800
commit54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e (patch)
treeb373f3283fe5e197d0df29cd6b645c35adf1076c /include/linux/fs.h
parente687d691cb3790d25e31c74f5941fd7c565e9df5 (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.h5
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);