From edca4a380584a65a16839bdee33ec82244f0f88e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Snitzer Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 12:54:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] block: disallow FS recursion from sb_issue_discard allocation Filesystems can call sb_issue_discard on a memory reclaim path (e.g. ext4 calls sb_issue_discard during journal commit). Use GFP_NOFS in sb_issue_discard to avoid recursing back into the FS. Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index a8b05fc80c6..89c855c5655 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ static inline int sb_issue_discard(struct super_block *sb, { block <<= (sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9); nr_blocks <<= (sb->s_blocksize_bits - 9); - return blkdev_issue_discard(sb->s_bdev, block, nr_blocks, GFP_KERNEL, + return blkdev_issue_discard(sb->s_bdev, block, nr_blocks, GFP_NOFS, BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT | BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER); } -- 2.39.2