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Commit 4dfa31b4 authored by Theodore Ts'o's avatar Theodore Ts'o Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM



We don't want the writeback triggered from the journal commit (in
data=writeback mode) to cause the journal to abort due to
generic_writepages() returning an ENOMEM error.  In addition, if
fsync() fails with ENOMEM, most applications will probably not do the
right thing.
So if we are doing a data integrity sync, and ext4_encrypt() returns
ENOMEM, we will submit any queued I/O to date, and then retry the
allocation using GFP_NOFAIL.

Change-Id: Ib16510f0261275a61c2b6870503e67b4b1189bee
Google-Bug-Id: 27641567
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Git-commit: c9af28fdd44922a6c10c9f8315718408af98e315
Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Markovytch <andreym@codeaurora.org>
parent 911e592f
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