jbd2: do not fail journal because of frozen_buffer allocation failure

Journal transaction might fail prematurely because the frozen_buffer is allocated by GFP_NOFS request: [ 72.440013] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer [ 72.440014] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access [ 72.440015] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_reserve_inode_write:4735: Out of memory (...snipped....) [ 72.495559] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer [ 72.495560] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access [ 72.496839] do_get_write_access: OOM for frozen_buffer [ 72.496841] EXT4-fs: ext4_reserve_inode_write:4729: aborting transaction: Out of memory in __ext4_journal_get_write_access [ 72.505766] Aborting journal on device sda1-8. [ 72.505851] EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only This wasn't a problem until "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM" because small GPF_NOFS allocations never failed. This allocation seems essential for the journal and GFP_NOFS is too restrictive to the memory allocator so let's use __GFP_NOFAIL here to emulate the previous behavior. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
josf · Mar 13, 2016 · 490c1b4 · 490c1b4
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commit 490c1b4
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 17 deletions.
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -966,14 +966,8 @@ do_get_write_access(handle_t *handle, struct journal_head *jh,
 		if (!frozen_buffer) {
 			JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "allocate memory for buffer");
 			jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
-			frozen_buffer = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
-			if (!frozen_buffer) {
-				printk(KERN_ERR "%s: OOM for frozen_buffer\n",
-				       __func__);
-				JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "oom!");
-				error = -ENOMEM;
-				goto out;
-			}
+			frozen_buffer = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
+						   GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
 			goto repeat;
 		}
 		jh->b_frozen_data = frozen_buffer;
@@ -1226,15 +1220,9 @@ int jbd2_journal_get_undo_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
 		goto out;
 
 repeat:
-	if (!jh->b_committed_data) {
-		committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
-		if (!committed_data) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: No memory for committed data\n",
-				__func__);
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto out;
-		}
-	}
+	if (!jh->b_committed_data)
+		committed_data = jbd2_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
+					    GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
 
 	jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
 	if (!jh->b_committed_data) {