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>
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index fe82d24..bf373745 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -219,7 +219,8 @@
}
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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
unlock_page(page);
page_cache_release(page);
- return write_begin_slow(mapping, pos, len, pagep);
+ return write_begin_slow(mapping, pos, len, pagep, flags);
}
/*