Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:19:15PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 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.
 
New helper, please.
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