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NFS: Use GFP_NOIO for two allocations in writeback
Prevent a deadlock that can occur if we wait on allocations that try to write back our pages. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com> Fixes: 00bfa30 ("NFS: Create a common pgio_alloc and pgio_release...") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+ Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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fs/nfs/pagelist.c

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@@ -29,13 +29,14 @@
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static struct kmem_cache *nfs_page_cachep;
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static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_pgio_common_ops;
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static bool nfs_pgarray_set(struct nfs_page_array *p, unsigned int pagecount)
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static bool nfs_pgarray_set(struct nfs_page_array *p, unsigned int pagecount,
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gfp_t gfp_flags)
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{
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p->npages = pagecount;
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if (pagecount <= ARRAY_SIZE(p->page_array))
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p->pagevec = p->page_array;
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else {
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p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
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p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), gfp_flags);
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if (!p->pagevec)
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p->npages = 0;
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}
@@ -681,6 +682,7 @@ void nfs_pageio_init(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *desc,
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{
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struct nfs_pgio_mirror *new;
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int i;
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gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
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desc->pg_moreio = 0;
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desc->pg_inode = inode;
@@ -700,8 +702,10 @@ void nfs_pageio_init(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *desc,
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if (pg_ops->pg_get_mirror_count) {
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/* until we have a request, we don't have an lseg and no
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* idea how many mirrors there will be */
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if (desc->pg_rw_ops->rw_mode == FMODE_WRITE)
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gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO;
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new = kcalloc(NFS_PAGEIO_DESCRIPTOR_MIRROR_MAX,
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sizeof(struct nfs_pgio_mirror), GFP_KERNEL);
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sizeof(struct nfs_pgio_mirror), gfp_flags);
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desc->pg_mirrors_dynamic = new;
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desc->pg_mirrors = new;
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@@ -755,9 +759,12 @@ int nfs_generic_pgio(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *desc,
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struct list_head *head = &mirror->pg_list;
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struct nfs_commit_info cinfo;
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unsigned int pagecount, pageused;
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gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
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pagecount = nfs_page_array_len(mirror->pg_base, mirror->pg_count);
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if (!nfs_pgarray_set(&hdr->page_array, pagecount)) {
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if (desc->pg_rw_ops->rw_mode == FMODE_WRITE)
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gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO;
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if (!nfs_pgarray_set(&hdr->page_array, pagecount, gfp_flags)) {
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nfs_pgio_error(hdr);
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desc->pg_error = -ENOMEM;
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return desc->pg_error;

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