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> --- fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c index 53af23f2c087..42b9949dd71d 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c @@ -4914,9 +4914,7 @@ static struct btrfs_bio *alloc_btrfs_bio(int total_stripes, int real_stripes) * and the stripes */ sizeof(u64) * (total_stripes), - GFP_NOFS); - if (!bbio) - return NULL; + GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL); atomic_set(&bbio->error, 0); atomic_set(&bbio->refs, 1); -- 2.5.0 -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>