GFS2 needs to call this from under a glock, so we need GFP_NOFS and I suspect that other filesystems might require this too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhit...@redhat.com> --- fs/xattr_acl.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xattr_acl.c b/fs/xattr_acl.c index c6ad7c7..05ac0fe 100644 --- a/fs/xattr_acl.c +++ b/fs/xattr_acl.c @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ posix_acl_from_xattr(const void *value, size_t size) if (count == 0) return NULL; - acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); + acl = posix_acl_alloc(count, GFP_NOFS); if (!acl) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); acl_e = acl->a_entries; -- 1.6.2.5