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SubjectRe: general protection fault in encode_rpcb_string
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 11:47:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc: convert unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOFS

It's OK to sleep here, we just don't want to recurse into the filesystem
as this writeout could be waiting on this.

As a next step: the documentation for GFP_NOFS says "Please try to avoid
using this flag directly and instead use memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} to
mark the whole scope which cannot/shouldn't recurse into the FS layer
with a short explanation why. All allocation requests will inherit
GFP_NOFS implicitly."

But I'm not sure where to do this. Should the workqueue could be
arranging that for us in the case of workqueues created with
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM?

Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammer.space>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
---
net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:54:36PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Yes, and we can probably convert it, and the other GFP_ATOMIC
> allocations in the rpcbind client to use GFP_NOFS in order to improve
> reliability.

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
index 82c120e51d64..576e84a1adee 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ void rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task *task)
goto bailout_nofree;
}

- map = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rpcbind_args), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ map = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rpcbind_args), GFP_NOFS);
if (!map) {
status = -ENOMEM;
dprintk("RPC: %5u %s: no memory available\n",
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ void rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task *task)
case RPCBVERS_4:
case RPCBVERS_3:
map->r_netid = xprt->address_strings[RPC_DISPLAY_NETID];
- map->r_addr = rpc_sockaddr2uaddr(sap, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ map->r_addr = rpc_sockaddr2uaddr(sap, GFP_NOFS);
if (!map->r_addr) {
status = -ENOMEM;
dprintk("RPC: %5u %s: no memory available\n",
--
2.17.0
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