On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:51:24AM +0200, mho...@kernel.org wrote: > From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> > > alloc_btrfs_bio is relying on GFP_NOFS to allocate a bio but since "mm: > page_alloc: do not lock up GFP_NOFS allocations upon OOM" this is > allowed to fail which can lead to > [ 37.928625] kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/extent_io.c:4045 > > This is clearly undesirable and the nofail behavior should be explicit > if the allocation failure cannot be tolerated. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
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