UBI: allocate memory with GFP_NOFS
Use GFP_NOFS flag when allocating memory on I/O path, because otherwise
we may deadlock the filesystem which works on top of us. We observed
the deadlocks with UBIFS. Example:
VFS->FS lock a lock->UBI->kmalloc()->VFS writeback->FS locks the same
lock again.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
index 9284763..ba5bc4a 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@
uint32_t crc, hdr_crc;
struct ubi_ec_hdr *ec_hdr;
- ec_hdr = kzalloc(ubi->ec_hdr_alsize, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ec_hdr = kzalloc(ubi->ec_hdr_alsize, GFP_NOFS);
if (!ec_hdr)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@
struct ubi_vid_hdr *vid_hdr;
void *p;
- vid_hdr = ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr(ubi);
+ vid_hdr = ubi_zalloc_vid_hdr(ubi, GFP_NOFS);
if (!vid_hdr)
return -ENOMEM;