Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750895AbWCJNCN (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:02:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750915AbWCJNCM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:02:12 -0500 Received: from hobbit.corpit.ru ([81.13.94.6]:23374 "EHLO hobbit.corpit.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750888AbWCJNCM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:02:12 -0500 Message-ID: <441178CF.7040705@tls.msk.ru> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:02:07 +0300 From: Michael Tokarev User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Korotaev CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: ext3_symlink should use GFP_NOFS allocations inside References: <44106393.2050207@openvz.org> In-Reply-To: <44106393.2050207@openvz.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 761 Lines: 21 Kirill Korotaev wrote: > This patch fixes illegal __GFP_FS allocation inside ext3 > transaction in ext3_symlink(). > Such allocation may re-enter ext3 code from > try_to_free_pages. But JBD/ext3 code keeps a pointer to current > journal handle in task_struct and, hence, is not reentrable. > > This bug led to "Assertion failure in journal_dirty_metadata()" messages. > > http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115 Is it the same bug as http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=113870577100003&r=1&w=2 ? Thanks. /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/