[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "jbd2: use GFP_NOFS in jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    jbd2: use GFP_NOFS in jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 47904eb623283cec94f074e556722fbe1d2e23f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:18:02 -0400
Subject: jbd2: use GFP_NOFS in jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail()

commit b4f1afcd068f6e533230dfed00782cd8a907f96b upstream.

jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() can be invoked by jbd2__journal_start()
So allocations should be done with GFP_NOFS

[Full stack trace snipped from 3.10-rh7]
[<ffffffff815c4bd4>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff8105dba1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x61/0x80
[<ffffffff8105dcca>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff815c2142>] slab_pre_alloc_hook.isra.31.part.32+0x15/0x17
[<ffffffff8119c045>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x55/0x210
[<ffffffff811477f5>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff811477f5>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff81147939>] mempool_alloc+0x69/0x170
[<ffffffff815cb69e>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff8109160d>] ? finish_task_switch+0x5d/0x150
[<ffffffff811f1a8e>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x1be/0x2e0
[<ffffffff8127ee49>] blkdev_issue_flush+0x99/0x120
[<ffffffffa019a733>] jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail+0x93/0xa0 [jbd2] -->GFP_KERNEL
[<ffffffffa019aca1>] jbd2_log_do_checkpoint+0x221/0x4a0 [jbd2]
[<ffffffffa019afc7>] __jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0xa7/0x1e0 [jbd2]
[<ffffffffa01952d8>] start_this_handle+0x2d8/0x550 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff811b02a9>] ? __memcg_kmem_put_cache+0x29/0x30
[<ffffffff8119c120>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x210
[<ffffffffa019573a>] jbd2__journal_start+0xba/0x190 [jbd2]
[<ffffffff811532ce>] ? lru_cache_add+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffffa01c9549>] ? ext4_da_write_begin+0xf9/0x330 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa01f2c77>] __ext4_journal_start_sb+0x77/0x160 [ext4]
[<ffffffffa01c9549>] ext4_da_write_begin+0xf9/0x330 [ext4]
[<ffffffff811446ec>] generic_file_buffered_write_iter+0x10c/0x270
[<ffffffff81146918>] __generic_file_write_iter+0x178/0x390
[<ffffffff81146c6b>] __generic_file_aio_write+0x8b/0xb0
[<ffffffff81146ced>] generic_file_aio_write+0x5d/0xc0
[<ffffffffa01bf289>] ext4_file_write+0xa9/0x450 [ext4]
[<ffffffff811c31d9>] ? pipe_read+0x379/0x4f0
[<ffffffff811b93f0>] do_sync_write+0x90/0xe0
[<ffffffff811b9b6d>] vfs_write+0xbd/0x1e0
[<ffffffff811ba5b8>] SyS_write+0x58/0xb0
[<ffffffff815d4799>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov at openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
index 7f34f47..8d09e75 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/checkpoint.c
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ int jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail(journal_t *journal)
 	 * jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail() doesn't get called all that often.
 	 */
 	if (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER)
-		blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+		blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL);

 	__jbd2_update_log_tail(journal, first_tid, blocknr);
 	return 0;
--
1.9.1