[PATCH-Review] f2fs: Set GF_NOFS in read_cache_page_gfp while doing f2fs_quota_read

From: Ritesh Harjani
Date: Fri Mar 16 2018 - 09:24:09 EST


Hello,

Observed below deadlock with quota enabled on f2fs during low memory situation.
I think during f2fs_quota_enable -> which is doing read_cache_page with __GFP_FS
flag set, due to low memory this is causing shrinker to get invoked
and thus going into a deadlock due to mutex lock in dquota. Commit details
in next patch contains the call stack.

Since I did not had the quota enabled on f2fs configuration, I could not test
this on my setup yet.

Could the community kindly review and let me know if the patch
is correct or not ?


Ritesh Harjani (1):
f2fs: Set GF_NOFS in read_cache_page_gfp while doing f2fs_quota_read

fs/f2fs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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