Merge tag 'v3.10.2' into linux-linaro-lsk-androidlsk-android

This is the 3.10.2 stable release

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index def84082a9a..59c6750b894 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4735,11 +4735,16 @@ do_more:
 		 * blocks being freed are metadata. these blocks shouldn't
 		 * be used until this transaction is committed
 		 */
+	retry:
 		new_entry = kmem_cache_alloc(ext4_free_data_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!new_entry) {
-			ext4_mb_unload_buddy(&e4b);
-			err = -ENOMEM;
-			goto error_return;
+			/*
+			 * We use a retry loop because
+			 * ext4_free_blocks() is not allowed to fail.
+			 */
+			cond_resched();
+			congestion_wait(BLK_RW_ASYNC, HZ/50);
+			goto retry;
 		}
 		new_entry->efd_start_cluster = bit;
 		new_entry->efd_group = block_group;