btrfs: protect space cache inode alloc with GFP_NOFS
authorJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:17:49 +0000 (07:17 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:15:14 +0000 (11:15 -0800)
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@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c

index 4426d1c..e75489e 100644 (file)
@@ -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_inode(struct btrfs_root *root,
        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_inode(struct btrfs_root *root,
        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)) {