ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp
commit c45653c3 upstream. Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added to fix possible deadlocks in the page writeback path. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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