By using the memalloc_nofs_save() functionality, we can call page_symlink(), safe in the knowledge that it won't recurse into the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 8cf0a924a49b..52799e1d579f 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include <linux/pagemap.h> #include <linux/time.h> #include <linux/fcntl.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include <linux/stat.h> #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/quotaops.h> @@ -3308,6 +3309,8 @@ static int ext4_symlink(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *dir, } if ((disk_link.len > EXT4_N_BLOCKS * 4)) { + unsigned int flags; + if (!IS_ENCRYPTED(inode)) inode->i_op = &ext4_symlink_inode_operations; inode_nohighmem(inode); @@ -3329,7 +3332,9 @@ static int ext4_symlink(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *dir, handle = NULL; if (err) goto err_drop_inode; - err = __page_symlink(inode, disk_link.name, disk_link.len, 1); + flags = memalloc_nofs_save(); + err = page_symlink(inode, disk_link.name, disk_link.len); + memalloc_nofs_restore(flags); if (err) goto err_drop_inode; /* -- 2.34.1