ext4: replace open coded nofail allocation in ext4_free_blocks()
ext4_free_blocks is looping around the allocation request and mimics
__GFP_NOFAIL behavior without any allocation fallback strategy. Let's
remove the open coded loop and replace it with __GFP_NOFAIL. Without the
flag the allocator has no way to find out never-fail requirement and
cannot help in any way.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 1c535fa..2299d62 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4815,18 +4815,12 @@
/*
* blocks being freed are metadata. these blocks shouldn't
* be used until this transaction is committed
+ *
+ * We use __GFP_NOFAIL because ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed
+ * to fail.
*/
- retry:
- new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
- if (!new_entry) {
- /*
- * We use a retry loop because
- * ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed to fail.
- */
- cond_resched();
- congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
- goto retry;
- }
+ new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep,
+ GFP_NOFS|__GFP_NOFAIL);
new_entry->efd_start_cluster = bit;
new_entry->efd_group = block_group;
new_entry->efd_count = count_clusters;