[PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside

This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 transaction in ext3_symlink(). Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current journal handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable. This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages. http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115 Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
cbmeeks · Mar 11, 2006 · 0adb25d · 0adb25d
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diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -2141,7 +2141,8 @@ static int ext3_symlink (struct inode * dir,
 		 * We have a transaction open.  All is sweetness.  It also sets
 		 * i_size in generic_commit_write().
 		 */
-		err = page_symlink(inode, symname, l);
+		err = __page_symlink(inode, symname, l,
+				mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping) & ~__GFP_FS);
 		if (err) {
 			ext3_dec_count(handle, inode);
 			ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2613,13 +2613,15 @@ void page_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd, void *cookie)
 	}
 }
 
-int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len)
+int __page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len,
+		gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
-	struct page *page = grab_cache_page(mapping, 0);
+	struct page *page;
 	int err = -ENOMEM;
 	char *kaddr;
 
+	page = find_or_create_page(mapping, 0, gfp_mask);
 	if (!page)
 		goto fail;
 	err = mapping->a_ops->prepare_write(NULL, page, 0, len-1);
@@ -2654,6 +2656,12 @@ int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len)
 	return err;
 }
 
+int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len)
+{
+	return __page_symlink(inode, symname, len,
+			mapping_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping));
+}
+
 struct inode_operations page_symlink_inode_operations = {
 	.readlink	= generic_readlink,
 	.follow_link	= page_follow_link_light,
@@ -2672,6 +2680,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_one_len);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_follow_link_light);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_put_link);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_readlink);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__page_symlink);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink_inode_operations);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(path_lookup);

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1664,6 +1664,8 @@ extern int vfs_follow_link(struct nameidata *, const char *);
 extern int page_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int);
 extern void *page_follow_link_light(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
 extern void page_put_link(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *, void *);
+extern int __page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len,
+		gfp_t gfp_mask);
 extern int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len);
 extern struct inode_operations page_symlink_inode_operations;
 extern int generic_readlink(struct dentry *, char __user *, int);