From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> We should not attempt to free the page if __GFP_FS is not set. Otherwise we can deadlock as per http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15578 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/file.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c index ae8d022..ae0d927 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/file.c +++ b/fs/nfs/file.c @@ -491,7 +491,8 @@ static int nfs_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp) { dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: release_page(%p)\n", page); - if (gfp & __GFP_WAIT) + /* Only do I/O if gfp is a superset of GFP_KERNEL */ + if ((gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL) nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page); /* If PagePrivate() is set, then the page is not freeable */ if (PagePrivate(page)) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
