From ddeff520f02b92128132c282c350fa72afffb84a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikita Danilov Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:53:47 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Fix a potential deadlock in nfs_release_page nfs_wb_page() waits on request completion and, as a result, is not safe to be called from nfs_release_page() invoked by VM scanner as part of GFP_NOFS allocation. Fix possible deadlock by analyzing gfp mask and refusing to release page if __GFP_FS is not set. Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust (cherry picked from 374d969debfb290bafcb41d28918dc6f7e43ce31 commit) --- Reading git-format-patch failed