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Commit f8afead7 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Mark Fasheh
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ocfs2: Fix possible deadlock in ocfs2_write_dquot()



It could happen that some limit has been set via quotactl() and in parallel
->mark_dirty() is called from another thread doing e.g. dquot_alloc_space(). In
such case ocfs2_write_dquot() must not try to sync the dquot because that needs
global quota lock but that ranks above transaction start.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
parent ea455f8a
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