The allocation happens under inode->i_rwsem and EXT2_I(inode)->i_truncate_mutex. Neither of them is acquired during direct fs reclaim so the allocation can be changed to GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext2/balloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/fs/ext2/balloc.c index e124f3d709b2..1bfd6ab11038 100644 --- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c +++ b/fs/ext2/balloc.c @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ void ext2_init_block_alloc_info(struct inode *inode) struct ext2_block_alloc_info *block_i; struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; - block_i = kmalloc(sizeof(*block_i), GFP_NOFS); + block_i = kmalloc(sizeof(*block_i), GFP_KERNEL); if (block_i) { struct ext2_reserve_window_node *rsv = &block_i->rsv_window_node; -- 2.35.3