From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Joe Thornber , Mike Snitzer Subject: [PATCH 3.14 070/125] dm btree: silence lockdep lock inversion in dm_btree_del() Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:41:10 -0700 Message-Id: <20150731194029.585116031@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20150731194027.037807932@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20150731194027.037807932@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Joe Thornber commit 1c7518794a3647eb345d59ee52844e8a40405198 upstream. Allocate memory using GFP_NOIO when deleting a btree. dm_btree_del() can be called via an ioctl and we don't want to recurse into the FS or block layer. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ int dm_btree_del(struct dm_btree_info *i int r; struct del_stack *s; - s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_KERNEL); + s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s), GFP_NOIO); if (!s) return -ENOMEM; s->info = info;