xfs: quota radix tree allocations need to be NOFS on insert
In converting the XFS code from GFP_NOFS to scoped contexts, we converted the quota radix tree to GFP_KERNEL. Unfortunately, it was not clearly documented that this set was because there is a dependency on the quotainfo->qi_tree_lock being taken in memory reclaim to remove dquots from the radix tree. In hindsight this is obvious, but the radix tree allocations on insert are not immediately obvious, and we avoid this for the inode cache radix trees by using preloading and hence completely avoiding the radix tree node allocation under tree lock constraints. Hence there are a few solutions here. The first is to reinstate GFP_NOFS for the radix tree and add a comment explaining why GFP_NOFS is used. The second is to use memalloc_nofs_save() on the radix tree insert context, which makes it obvious that the radix tree insert runs under GFP_NOFS constraints. The third option is to simply replace the radix tree and it's lock with an xarray which can do memory allocation safely in an insert context. The first is OK, but not really the direction we want to head. The second is my preferred short term solution. The third - converting XFS radix trees to xarray - is the longer term solution. Hence to fix the regression here, we take option 2 as it moves us in the direction we want to head with memory allocation and GFP_NOFS removal. Reported-by: <syzbot+8fdff861a781522bda4d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Reported-by: <syzbot+d247769793ec169e4bf9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Fixes: 94a69db2 ("xfs: use __GFP_NOLOCKDEP instead of GFP_NOFS") Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
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