dm snapshot: fix register_snapshot deadlock

register_snapshot() performs a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding
_origins_lock for write, but that could write out dirty pages onto a
device that attempts to acquire _origins_lock for read, resulting in
deadlock.

So move the allocation up before taking the lock.

This path is not performance-critical, so it doesn't matter that we
allocate memory and free it if we find that we won't need it.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <[email protected]>

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