xfs: use KM_NOFS for allocations during attribute list operations
When listing attributes, we are doiing memory allocations under the inode ilock using only KM_SLEEP. This allows memory allocation to recurse back into the filesystem and do writeback, which may the ilock we already hold on the current inode. THis will deadlock. Hence use KM_NOFS for such allocations outside of transaction context to ensure that reclaim recursion does not occur. Reported-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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