4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 84de76a2fb217dc1b6bc2965cc397d1648aa1404 upstream.
If we're allocating a new space cache inode it's likely going to be
under a transaction handle, so we need to use memalloc_nofs_save() in
order to avoid deadlocks, and more importantly lockdep messages that
make xfstests fail.
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.4+
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/math64.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include "ctree.h"
#include "free-space-cache.h"
#include "transaction.h"
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ static struct inode *__lookup_free_space
struct btrfs_free_space_header *header;
struct extent_buffer *leaf;
struct inode *inode = NULL;
+ unsigned nofs_flag;
int ret;
key.objectid = BTRFS_FREE_SPACE_OBJECTID;
@@ -80,7 +82,13 @@ static struct inode *__lookup_free_space
btrfs_disk_key_to_cpu(&location, &disk_key);
btrfs_release_path(path);
+ /*
+ * We are often under a trans handle at this point, so we need to make
+ * sure NOFS is set to keep us from deadlocking.
+ */
+ nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
inode = btrfs_iget(fs_info->sb, &location, root, NULL);
+ memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
if (IS_ERR(inode))
return inode;
if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
