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.
Google-Bug-Id: 27641567
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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