On Mon 13-01-20 17:32:37, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 05:05:22PM +0900, Naoto Kobayashi wrote:

quoted

Rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and drop
its flags argument, because ext4_kvmalloc() callers must be
under GFP_NOFS (otherwise, they should use generic kvmalloc()
helper function).

Signed-off-by: Naoto Kobayashi <redacted>

Thanks, applied.

Ted, I don't think this patch is needed at all - see my email [1]. Sadly
Naoto didn't reply to my question whether he really saw any deadlock /
lockdep splat or whether it was just a theoretical concern he had...

								Honza

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ext4/20200109100007.GC27035@quack2.suse.cz (local)

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