The GFP_NOFS allocation in udf_symlink() is called only under inode->i_rwsem and UDF_I(inode)->i_data_sem. The first is safe wrt reclaim, the second should be as well but allocating unde this lock is actually unnecessary. Move the allocation from under i_data_sem and change it to GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/udf/namei.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/udf/namei.c b/fs/udf/namei.c index 1f14a0621a91..1308109fd42d 100644 --- a/fs/udf/namei.c +++ b/fs/udf/namei.c @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int udf_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) static int udf_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname) { - struct inode *inode = udf_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | 0777); + struct inode *inode; struct pathComponent *pc; const char *compstart; struct extent_position epos = {}; @@ -579,17 +579,20 @@ static int udf_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir, struct udf_inode_info *iinfo; struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb; - if (IS_ERR(inode)) - return PTR_ERR(inode); - - iinfo = UDF_I(inode); - down_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem); - name = kmalloc(UDF_NAME_LEN_CS0, GFP_NOFS); + name = kmalloc(UDF_NAME_LEN_CS0, GFP_KERNEL); if (!name) { err = -ENOMEM; - goto out_no_entry; + goto out; + } + + inode = udf_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | 0777); + if (IS_ERR(inode)) { + err = PTR_ERR(inode); + goto out; } + iinfo = UDF_I(inode); + down_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem); inode->i_data.a_ops = &udf_symlink_aops; inode->i_op = &udf_symlink_inode_operations; inode_nohighmem(inode); -- 2.35.3