4.5-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> commit 8f282f71eaee7ac979cdbe525f76daa0722798a8 upstream. The allocation of node could fail if the memory is too fragmented for a given node size, practically observed with 64k. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/54689 Reported-and-tested-by: Jean-Denis Girard <jd.girard@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/ctree.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/rbtree.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include "ctree.h" #include "disk-io.h" #include "transaction.h" @@ -5361,10 +5362,13 @@ int btrfs_compare_trees(struct btrfs_roo goto out; } - tmp_buf = kmalloc(left_root->nodesize, GFP_NOFS); + tmp_buf = kmalloc(left_root->nodesize, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!tmp_buf) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; + tmp_buf = vmalloc(left_root->nodesize); + if (!tmp_buf) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } } left_path->search_commit_root = 1; @@ -5565,7 +5569,7 @@ int btrfs_compare_trees(struct btrfs_roo out: btrfs_free_path(left_path); btrfs_free_path(right_path); - kfree(tmp_buf); + kvfree(tmp_buf); return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html