[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 030/118] dm btree: silence lockdep lock inversion in dm_btree_del()
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Aug 12 08:55:32 UTC 2015
3.16.7-ckt16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
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 <ejt at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-btree.c
index 200ac12a1d40..fdd3793e22f9 100644
--- 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 *info, dm_block_t root)
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;
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