From d812e575822a2b7ab1a7cadae2571505ec6ec2bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:55:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Prevent another deadlock in nfs_release_page() We should not attempt to free the page if __GFP_FS is not set. Otherwise we can deadlock as per http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15578 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/nfs/file.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c index ae8d02294e46..ae0d92736531 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/file.c +++ b/fs/nfs/file.c @@ -491,7 +491,8 @@ static int nfs_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp) { dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: release_page(%p)\n", page); - if (gfp & __GFP_WAIT) + /* Only do I/O if gfp is a superset of GFP_KERNEL */ + if ((gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL) nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page); /* If PagePrivate() is set, then the page is not freeable */ if (PagePrivate(page)) -- 2.39.2