@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int udf_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
static int udf_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname)
{
- struct inode *inode = udf_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | 0777);
+ struct inode *inode;
struct pathComponent *pc;
const char *compstart;
struct extent_position epos = {};
@@ -579,17 +579,20 @@ static int udf_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
struct udf_inode_info *iinfo;
struct super_block *sb = dir->i_sb;
- if (IS_ERR(inode))
- return PTR_ERR(inode);
-
- iinfo = UDF_I(inode);
- down_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem);
- name = kmalloc(UDF_NAME_LEN_CS0, GFP_NOFS);
+ name = kmalloc(UDF_NAME_LEN_CS0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name) {
err = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_no_entry;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ inode = udf_new_inode(dir, S_IFLNK | 0777);
+ if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(inode);
+ goto out;
}
+ iinfo = UDF_I(inode);
+ down_write(&iinfo->i_data_sem);
inode->i_data.a_ops = &udf_symlink_aops;
inode->i_op = &udf_symlink_inode_operations;
inode_nohighmem(inode);
The GFP_NOFS allocation in udf_symlink() is called only under inode->i_rwsem and UDF_I(inode)->i_data_sem. The first is safe wrt reclaim, the second should be as well but allocating unde this lock is actually unnecessary. Move the allocation from under i_data_sem and change it to GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> --- fs/udf/namei.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)