FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: allocate new inode in NOFS context" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 11a19a90870ea5496a8ded69b86f5b476b6d3355 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 10:12:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: allocate new inode in NOFS context

A user reported a lockdep splat

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.2.11-gentoo #2 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/711 is trying to acquire lock:
000000007777a663 (sb_internal){.+.+}, at: start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500

but task is already holding lock:
000000000ba86300 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}:

 kmem_cache_alloc+0x1f/0x1c0
 btrfs_alloc_inode+0x1f/0x260
 alloc_inode+0x16/0xa0
 new_inode+0xe/0xb0
 btrfs_new_inode+0x70/0x610
 btrfs_symlink+0xd0/0x420
 vfs_symlink+0x9c/0x100
 do_symlinkat+0x66/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0x1c0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

-> #0 (sb_internal){.+.+}:

 __sb_start_write+0xf6/0x150
 start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500
 btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode+0x59/0x110
 btrfs_evict_inode+0x19e/0x4c0
 evict+0xbc/0x1f0
 inode_lru_isolate+0x113/0x190
 __list_lru_walk_one.isra.4+0x5c/0x100
 list_lru_walk_one+0x32/0x50
 prune_icache_sb+0x36/0x80
 super_cache_scan+0x14a/0x1d0
 do_shrink_slab+0x131/0x320
 shrink_node+0xf7/0x380
 balance_pgdat+0x2d5/0x640
 kswapd+0x2ba/0x5e0
 kthread+0x147/0x160
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(sb_internal);
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(sb_internal);
*** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by kswapd0/711:
#0: 000000000ba86300 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30 #1: 000000004a5100f8 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}, at: shrink_node+0x9a/0x380 #2: 00000000f956fa46 (&type->s_umount_key#30){++++}, at: super_cache_scan+0x35/0x1d0

stack backtrace:
 CPU: 7 PID: 711 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 5.2.11-gentoo #2
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision Tower 3620/0MWYPT, BIOS 2.4.2 09/29/2017
 Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x85/0xc7
 print_circular_bug.cold.40+0x1d9/0x235
 __lock_acquire+0x18b1/0x1f00
 lock_acquire+0xa6/0x170
 ? start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500
 __sb_start_write+0xf6/0x150
 ? start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500
 start_transaction+0x3a8/0x500
 btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode+0x59/0x110
 btrfs_evict_inode+0x19e/0x4c0
 ? var_wake_function+0x20/0x20
 evict+0xbc/0x1f0
 inode_lru_isolate+0x113/0x190
 ? discard_new_inode+0xc0/0xc0
 __list_lru_walk_one.isra.4+0x5c/0x100
 ? discard_new_inode+0xc0/0xc0
 list_lru_walk_one+0x32/0x50
 prune_icache_sb+0x36/0x80
 super_cache_scan+0x14a/0x1d0
 do_shrink_slab+0x131/0x320
 shrink_node+0xf7/0x380
 balance_pgdat+0x2d5/0x640
 kswapd+0x2ba/0x5e0
 ? __wake_up_common_lock+0x90/0x90
 kthread+0x147/0x160
 ? balance_pgdat+0x640/0x640
 ? __kthread_create_on_node+0x160/0x160
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

This is because btrfs_new_inode() calls new_inode() under the transaction. We could probably move the new_inode() outside of this but for now just wrap it in memalloc_nofs_save().

index a0546401bc0a..0f2754eaa05b 100644
@@ -6305,13 +6305,16 @@ static struct inode *btrfs_new_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	u32 sizes[2];
 	int nitems = name ? 2 : 1;
 	unsigned long ptr;
+	unsigned int nofs_flag;
 	int ret;
 
 	path = btrfs_alloc_path();
 	if (!path)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
+	nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
 	inode = new_inode(fs_info->sb);
+	memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
 	if (!inode) {
 		btrfs_free_path(path);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);