ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM
commit c9af28fd upstream. We don't want the writeback triggered from the journal commit (in data=writeback mode) to cause the journal to abort due to generic_writepages() returning an ENOMEM error. In addition, if fsync() fails with ENOMEM, most applications will probably not do the right thing. So if we are doing a data integrity sync, and ext4_encrypt() returns ENOMEM, we will submit any queued I/O to date, and then retry the allocation using GFP_NOFAIL. Google-Bug-Id: 27641567 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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