Thread (56 messages) 56 messages, 1 author, 2012-05-27

[ 26/55] md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-05-27 01:53:33
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3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>

commit b5e1b8cee7ad58a15d2fa79bcd7946acb592602d upstream.

A flush request is usually issued in transaction commit code path, so
using GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into
the classic deadlock issue.

This is suitable for any -stable kernel to which it applies as it
avoids a possible deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <redacted>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/md.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static void submit_flushes(struct work_s
 			atomic_inc(&rdev->nr_pending);
 			atomic_inc(&rdev->nr_pending);
 			rcu_read_unlock();
-			bi = bio_alloc_mddev(GFP_KERNEL, 0, mddev);
+			bi = bio_alloc_mddev(GFP_NOIO, 0, mddev);
 			bi->bi_end_io = md_end_flush;
 			bi->bi_private = rdev;
 			bi->bi_bdev = rdev->bdev;

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