Andrew,
Fixed both comments from Al Viro (thanks, Al):
- should have a separate helper
- should pass 0 instead of GFP_KERNEL in page_symlink()
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]>
Thanks,
Kirill
P.S. against 2.6.16-rc5
--- ./fs/ext3/namei.c.symlnkfix 2006-03-10 10:24:05.000000000 +0300
+++ ./fs/ext3/namei.c 2006-03-10 10:24:49.000000000 +0300
@@ -2141,7 +2141,7 @@ retry:
* 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, GFP_NOFS);
if (err) {
ext3_dec_count(handle, inode);
ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
--- ./fs/namei.c.symlnkfix 2006-03-10 10:24:05.000000000 +0300
+++ ./fs/namei.c 2006-03-10 10:34:58.000000000 +0300
@@ -2613,13 +2613,16 @@ void page_put_link(struct dentry *dentry
}
}
-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,
+ mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) | gfp_mask);
if (!page)
goto fail;
err = mapping->a_ops->prepare_write(NULL, page, 0, len-1);
@@ -2654,6 +2657,11 @@ fail:
return err;
}
+int page_symlink(struct inode *inode, const char *symname, int len)
+{
+ return __page_symlink(inode, symname, len, 0);
+}
+
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);
--- ./include/linux/fs.h.symlnkfix 2006-03-10 10:24:05.000000000 +0300
+++ ./include/linux/fs.h 2006-03-10 10:27:40.000000000 +0300
@@ -1669,6 +1669,8 @@ extern int vfs_follow_link(struct nameid
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);
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