[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 064/107] dm btree: silence lockdep lock inversion in dm_btree_del()
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Wed Aug 5 21:48:56 UTC 2015
3.19.8-ckt5 -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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 200ac12..fdd3793 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;
--
1.9.1
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