From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit b4f1afcd068f6e533230dfed00782cd8a907f96b ] jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() can be invoked by jbd2__journal_start() So allocations should be done with GFP_NOFS [Full stack trace snipped from 3.10-rh7] [<ffffffff815c4bd4>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<ffffffff8105dba1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80 [<ffffffff8105dcca>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [<ffffffff815c2142>] slab_pre_alloc_hook.isra.31.part.32+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffff8119c045>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x55/0x210 [<ffffffff811477f5>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff811477f5>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff81147939>] mempool_alloc+0x69/0x170 [<ffffffff815cb69e>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xe/0x20 [<ffffffff8109160d>] ? finish_task_switch+0x5d/0x150 [<ffffffff811f1a8e>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x1be/0x2e0 [<ffffffff8127ee49>] blkdev_issue_flush+0x99/0x120 [<ffffffffa019a733>] jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail+0x93/0xa0 [jbd2] -->GFP_KERNEL [<ffffffffa019aca1>] jbd2_log_do_checkpoint+0x221/0x4a0 [jbd2] [<ffffffffa019afc7>] __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0xa7/0x1e0 [jbd2] [<ffffffffa01952d8>] start_this_handle+0x2d8/0x550 [jbd2] [<ffffffff811b02a9>] ? __memcg_kmem_put_cache+0x29/0x30 [<ffffffff8119c120>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x210 [<ffffffffa019573a>] jbd2__journal_start+0xba/0x190 [jbd2] [<ffffffff811532ce>] ? lru_cache_add+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffffa01c9549>] ? ext4_da_write_begin+0xf9/0x330 [ext4] [<ffffffffa01f2c77>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x77/0x160 [ext4] [<ffffffffa01c9549>] ext4_da_write_begin+0xf9/0x330 [ext4] [<ffffffff811446ec>] generic_file_buffered_write_iter+0x10c/0x270 [<ffffffff81146918>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x178/0x390 [<ffffffff81146c6b>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x8b/0xb0 [<ffffffff81146ced>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5d/0xc0 [<ffffffffa01bf289>] ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x450 [ext4] [<ffffffff811c31d9>] ? pipe_read+0x379/0x4f0 [<ffffffff811b93f0>] do_sync_write+0x90/0xe0 [<ffffffff811b9b6d>] vfs_write+0xbd/0x1e0 [<ffffffff811ba5b8>] SyS_write+0x58/0xb0 [<ffffffff815d4799>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c index 988b32e..6b7b73a 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ int jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(journal_t *journal) * jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() doesn't get called all that often. */ if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER) - blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); + blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL); __jbd2_update_log_tail(journal, first_tid, blocknr); return 0; -- 2.1.0 -- 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