Commit 9d123a35 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by David Sterba

Btrfs: fix inode cache waiters hanging on path allocation failure

If the caching thread fails to allocate a path, it returns without waking
up any cache waiters, leaving them hang forever. Fix this by following the
same approach as when we fail to start the caching thread: print an error
message, disable inode caching and make the wakers fallback to non-caching
mode behaviour (calling btrfs_find_free_objectid()).

Fixes: 581bb050 ("Btrfs: Cache free inode numbers in memory")
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
parent a68ebe07
......@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ static int caching_kthread(void *data)
return 0;
path = btrfs_alloc_path();
if (!path)
if (!path) {
fail_caching_thread(root);
return -ENOMEM;
}
/* Since the commit root is read-only, we can safely skip locking. */
path->skip_locking = 1;
......
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