From 335e92e8a515420bd47a6b0f01cb9a206c0ed6e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:34:43 -0700 Subject: vfs: fix possible deadlock in ext2, ext3, ext4 when using xattrs mb_cache_entry_alloc() was allocating cache entries with GFP_KERNEL. But filesystems are calling this function while holding xattr_sem so possible recursion into the fs violates locking ordering of xattr_sem and transaction start / i_mutex for ext2-4. Change mb_cache_entry_alloc() so that filesystems can specify desired gfp mask and use GFP_NOFS from all of them. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Dave Jones Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/ext4/xattr.c') diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index d7962139c010..e9054c1c7d93 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ ext4_xattr_cache_insert(struct buffer_head *bh) struct mb_cache_entry *ce; int error; - ce = mb_cache_entry_alloc(ext4_xattr_cache); + ce = mb_cache_entry_alloc(ext4_xattr_cache, GFP_NOFS); if (!ce) { ea_bdebug(bh, "out of memory"); return; -- cgit v1.2.3