4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nikolay Borisov <ker...@kyup.com>

commit c45653c341f5c8a0ce19c8f0ad4678640849cb86 upstream.

Switch ext4 to using sb_getblk_gfp with GFP_NOFS added to fix possible
deadlocks in the page writeback path.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <ker...@kyup.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ __read_extent_tree_block(const char *fun
        struct buffer_head              *bh;
        int                             err;
 
-       bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, pblk);
+       bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, pblk, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
        if (unlikely(!bh))
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -1088,7 +1088,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_split(handle_t *hand
                err = -EIO;
                goto cleanup;
        }
-       bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock);
+       bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
        if (unlikely(!bh)) {
                err = -ENOMEM;
                goto cleanup;
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ static int ext4_ext_grow_indepth(handle_
        if (newblock == 0)
                return err;
 
-       bh = sb_getblk(inode->i_sb, newblock);
+       bh = sb_getblk_gfp(inode->i_sb, newblock, __GFP_MOVABLE | GFP_NOFS);
        if (unlikely(!bh))
                return -ENOMEM;
        lock_buffer(bh);


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