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ext4: Fix deadlock in ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin()
authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:35:15 +0000 (02:35 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:32:43 +0000 (17:32 -0700)
commit9d9cc48d44908a2e476167fb1345d250225a8e69
tree49f497724f208dd5608e5a44de15bf8561c24b05
parentf08d9c62257c72baacd3050b45f3073a815b5297
ext4: Fix deadlock in ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin()

(cherry picked from commit ebd3610b110bbb18ea6f9f2aeed1e1068c537227)

Functions ext4_write_begin() and ext4_da_write_begin() call
grab_cache_page_write_begin() without AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Thus it
can happen that page reclaim is triggered in that function
and it recurses back into the filesystem (or some other filesystem).
But this can lead to various problems as a transaction is already
started at that point. Add the necessary flag.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11688

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/ext4/inode.c