On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:35:18 -0800 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > GFP_NOFS is never the right thing for block layer allocations. > The right thing here is GFP_NOIO which is a superset of GFP_NOFS. > Otherwise you could reproduce the same deadlock when using swap > instead of a file system to reproduce basically the same deadlock. Duh, you are right of course! The fixed up patch with GFP_NOIO is below. ---8<---
