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SubjectRe: [git patch] fuse fixes
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Linus,
>
> Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git

Reading the code...
> struct fuse_req *fuse_request_alloc(void)
> {
> struct fuse_req *req = kmem_cache_alloc(fuse_req_cachep, SLAB_KERNEL);
> if (req)
> fuse_request_init(req);
> return req;
> }

This function is called from everywhere, and so, it looks like it should
use SLAB_NOFS rather than SLAB_KERNEL. I would audit every GFP_KERNEL
and SLAB_KERNEL usage, and consider replacing with SLAB_NOFS or GFP_NOFS.

Jeff


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