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[RFC,6/8] ext3: Do not abort journal prematurely

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Michal Hocko Aug. 5, 2015, 9:51 a.m. UTC 
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

journal_get_undo_access is relying on GFP_NOFS allocation yet it is
essential for the journal transaction:

[   83.256914] journal_get_undo_access: No memory for committed data
[   83.258022] EXT3-fs: ext3_free_blocks_sb: aborting transaction: Out
of memory in __ext3_journal_get_undo_access
[   83.259785] EXT3-fs (hdb1): error in ext3_free_blocks_sb: Out of
memory
[   83.267130] Aborting journal on device hdb1.
[   83.292308] EXT3-fs (hdb1): error: ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected
aborted journal
[   83.293630] EXT3-fs (hdb1): error: remounting filesystem read-only

Since "mm: page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM"
these allocation requests are allowed to fail so we need to use
__GFP_NOFAIL to imitate the previous behavior.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
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 fs/jbd/transaction.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index bf7474deda2f..6c60376a29bc 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@  int journal_get_undo_access(handle_t *handle, struct buffer_head *bh)
 
 repeat:
 	if (!jh->b_committed_data) {
-		committed_data = jbd_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
+		committed_data = jbd_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
 		if (!committed_data) {
 			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: No memory for committed data\n",
 				__func__);