[Ocfs2-devel] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Thu Nov 18 15:42:16 PST 2010


On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:36:02PM +0100, David Sterba wrote:
> coccinelle check scripts/coccinelle/locks/call_kern.cocci found that
> in fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmdomain.c an allocation with GFP_KERNEL is done
> with locks held:
> 
> dlm_query_region_handler
>   spin_lock(dlm_domain_lock)
>     dlm_match_regions
>       kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Change it to GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba at suse.cz>
> CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker at oracle.com>
> CC: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.com>
> CC: ocfs2-devel at oss.oracle.com

	This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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