On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:51:24AM +0200, mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> > > alloc_btrfs_bio is relying on GFP_NOFS to allocate a bio but since "mm: > page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM" this is > allowed to fail which can lead to > [ 37.928625] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:4045 > > This is clearly undesirable and the nofail behavior should be explicit > if the allocation failure cannot be tolerated. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> -- 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
