From 1c7518794a3647eb345d59ee52844e8a40405198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Thornber Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:51:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dm btree: silence lockdep lock inversion in dm_btree_del() Allocate memory using GFP_NOIO when deleting a btree. dm_btree_del() can be called via an ioctl and we don't want to recurse into the FS or block layer. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c index 200ac12..fdd3793 100644 --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int dm_btree_del(struct dm_btree_info *info, dm_block_t root) int r; struct del_stack *s; - s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL); + s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_NOIO); if (!s) return -ENOMEM; s->info = info; -- 2.7.4