ocfs2: Fix possible deadlock when extending quota file
In OCFS2, allocator locks rank above transaction start. Thus we cannot extend quota file from inside a transaction less we could deadlock. We solve the problem by starting transaction not already in ocfs2_acquire_dquot() but only in ocfs2_local_read_dquot() and ocfs2_global_read_dquot() and we allocate blocks to quota files before starting the transaction. In case we crash, quota files will just have a few blocks more but that's no problem since we just use them next time we extend the quota file. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
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