Hello, Seems theres a few places where we make allocations with GFP_KERNEL while in a transaction, which can be dangerous under memory pressure as we can re-enter the fs stuff trying to free up memory. This patch just goes through and changes the GFP_KERNEL allocations that occur under a transaction to GFP_NOFS to keep this problem from happening. Thank you, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/acl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/acl.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/acl.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ ext3_acl_from_disk(const void *value, si return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); if (count == 0) return NULL; - acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); + acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_NOFS); if (!acl) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); for (n=0; n < count; n++) { @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ ext3_acl_to_disk(const struct posix_acl *size = ext3_acl_size(acl->a_count); ext_acl = kmalloc(sizeof(ext3_acl_header) + acl->a_count * - sizeof(ext3_acl_entry), GFP_KERNEL); + sizeof(ext3_acl_entry), GFP_NOFS); if (!ext_acl) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ext_acl->a_version = cpu_to_le32(EXT3_ACL_VERSION); @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ ext3_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int ty } retval = ext3_xattr_get(inode, name_index, "", NULL, 0); if (retval > 0) { - value = kmalloc(retval, GFP_KERNEL); + value = kmalloc(retval, GFP_NOFS); if (!value) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); retval = ext3_xattr_get(inode, name_index, "", value, retval); @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ ext3_init_acl(handle_t *handle, struct i if (error) goto cleanup; } - clone = posix_acl_clone(acl, GFP_KERNEL); + clone = posix_acl_clone(acl, GFP_NOFS); error = -ENOMEM; if (!clone) goto cleanup; Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/resize.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/resize.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/resize.c @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, goto exit_dindj; n_group_desc = kmalloc((gdb_num + 1) * sizeof(struct buffer_head *), - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_NOFS); if (!n_group_desc) { err = -ENOMEM; ext3_warning (sb, __FUNCTION__, @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int reserve_backup_gdb(handle_t * int res, i; int err; - primary = kmalloc(reserved_gdb * sizeof(*primary), GFP_KERNEL); + primary = kmalloc(reserved_gdb * sizeof(*primary), GFP_NOFS); if (!primary) return -ENOMEM; Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext3/xattr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext3/xattr.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext3/xattr.c @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ ext3_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, s ce = NULL; } ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "cloning"); - s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_KERNEL); + s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS); error = -ENOMEM; if (s->base == NULL) goto cleanup; @@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ ext3_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, s } } else { /* Allocate a buffer where we construct the new block. */ - s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); + s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_NOFS); /* assert(header == s->base) */ error = -ENOMEM; if (s->base == NULL) Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/acl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/acl.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/acl.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ ext4_acl_from_disk(const void *value, si return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); if (count == 0) return NULL; - acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); + acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_NOFS); if (!acl) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); for (n=0; n < count; n++) { @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ ext4_acl_to_disk(const struct posix_acl *size = ext4_acl_size(acl->a_count); ext_acl = kmalloc(sizeof(ext4_acl_header) + acl->a_count * - sizeof(ext4_acl_entry), GFP_KERNEL); + sizeof(ext4_acl_entry), GFP_NOFS); if (!ext_acl) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ext_acl->a_version = cpu_to_le32(EXT4_ACL_VERSION); @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ ext4_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int ty } retval = ext4_xattr_get(inode, name_index, "", NULL, 0); if (retval > 0) { - value = kmalloc(retval, GFP_KERNEL); + value = kmalloc(retval, GFP_NOFS); if (!value) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); retval = ext4_xattr_get(inode, name_index, "", value, retval); @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ ext4_init_acl(handle_t *handle, struct i if (error) goto cleanup; } - clone = posix_acl_clone(acl, GFP_KERNEL); + clone = posix_acl_clone(acl, GFP_NOFS); error = -ENOMEM; if (!clone) goto cleanup; Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/extents.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@ int ext4_ext_remove_space(struct inode * * We start scanning from right side, freeing all the blocks * after i_size and walking into the tree depth-wise. */ - path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1), GFP_KERNEL); + path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 1), GFP_NOFS); if (path == NULL) { ext4_journal_stop(handle); return -ENOMEM; Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/resize.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, goto exit_dindj; n_group_desc = kmalloc((gdb_num + 1) * sizeof(struct buffer_head *), - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_NOFS); if (!n_group_desc) { err = -ENOMEM; ext4_warning (sb, __func__, @@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static int reserve_backup_gdb(handle_t * int res, i; int err; - primary = kmalloc(reserved_gdb * sizeof(*primary), GFP_KERNEL); + primary = kmalloc(reserved_gdb * sizeof(*primary), GFP_NOFS); if (!primary) return -ENOMEM; Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext4/xattr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ linux-2.6/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, s ce = NULL; } ea_bdebug(bs->bh, "cloning"); - s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_KERNEL); + s->base = kmalloc(bs->bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS); error = -ENOMEM; if (s->base == NULL) goto cleanup; @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ ext4_xattr_block_set(handle_t *handle, s } } else { /* Allocate a buffer where we construct the new block. */ - s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_KERNEL); + s->base = kzalloc(sb->s_blocksize, GFP_NOFS); /* assert(header == s->base) */ error = -ENOMEM; if (s->base == NULL) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html