From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:04:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060309210445.GU27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44106393.2050207@openvz.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 17:19 [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-09 21:04 ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-03-10 13:02 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-03-10 20:21 ` Andrew Morton
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2006-03-10 8:08 Kirill Korotaev
2006-03-10 8:31 ` Al Viro
2006-03-10 8:46 ` Kirill Korotaev
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