ext4: avoid deadlocks in the writeback path by using sb_getblk_gfp

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commit c45653c341 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>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>

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Nikolay Borisov 2015-07-02 01:34:07 -04:00 • committed by Luis Henriques

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