Btrfs: fix deadlock with memory reclaim during scrub
[ Upstream commit a5fb1142 ] When a transaction commit starts, it attempts to pause scrub and it blocks until the scrub is paused. So while the transaction is blocked waiting for scrub to pause, we can not do memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL from scrub, otherwise we risk getting into a deadlock with reclaim. Checking for scrub pause requests is done early at the beginning of the while loop of scrub_stripe() and later in the loop, scrub_extent() and scrub_raid56_parity() are called, which in turn call scrub_pages() and scrub_pages_for_parity() respectively. These last two functions do memory allocations using GFP_KERNEL. Same problem could happen while scrubbing the super blocks, since it calls scrub_pages(). We also can not have any of the worker tasks, created by the scrub task, doing GFP_KERNEL allocations, because before pausing, the scrub task waits for all the worker tasks to complete (also done at scrub_stripe()). So make sure GFP_NOFS is used for the memory allocations because at any time a scrub pause request can happen from another task that started to commit a transaction. Fixes: 58c4e173 ("btrfs: scrub: use GFP_KERNEL on the submission path") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.6+ Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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