FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: protect space cache inode alloc with GFP_NOFS" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: protect space cache inode alloc with GFP_NOFS" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 84de76a2fb217dc1b6bc2965cc397d1648aa1404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:17:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: protect space cache inode alloc with GFP_NOFS

If we're allocating a new space cache inode it's likely going to be
under a transaction handle, so we need to use memalloc_nofs_save() in
order to avoid deadlocks, and more importantly lockdep messages that
make xfstests fail.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
index ed097ff023e8..a1f379e8ad13 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/free-space-cache.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/math64.h>
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/error-injection.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 #include "ctree.h"
 #include "free-space-cache.h"
 #include "transaction.h"
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ static struct inode *__lookup_free_space_inode(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	struct btrfs_free_space_header *header;
 	struct extent_buffer *leaf;
 	struct inode *inode = NULL;
+	unsigned nofs_flag;
 	int ret;
 
 	key.objectid = BTRFS_FREE_SPACE_OBJECTID;
@@ -68,7 +70,13 @@ static struct inode *__lookup_free_space_inode(struct btrfs_root *root,
 	btrfs_disk_key_to_cpu(&location, &disk_key);
 	btrfs_release_path(path);
 
+	/*
+	 * We are often under a trans handle at this point, so we need to make
+	 * sure NOFS is set to keep us from deadlocking.
+	 */
+	nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
 	inode = btrfs_iget(fs_info->sb, &location, root, NULL);
+	memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
 	if (IS_ERR(inode))
 		return inode;