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| author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2013-01-04 21:47:04 +0400 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2013-01-04 21:59:10 +0400 |
| commit | 6db6dd7d3fd8f7c765dabc376493d6791ab28bd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 3328dca5352ad54f3d12d484ee5742a9a5b67542 /fs/nfs/write.c | |
| parent | c6567ed1402c55e19b012e66a8398baec2a726f3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6db6dd7d3fd8f7c765dabc376493d6791ab28bd6.tar.xz | |
NFS: Ensure that we free the rpc_task after read and write cleanups are done
This patch ensures that we free the rpc_task after the cleanup callbacks
are done in order to avoid a deadlock problem that can be triggered if
the callback needs to wait for another workqueue item to complete.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [>= 3.5]
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/write.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/write.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index b673be31590e..c483cc50b82e 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -126,12 +126,16 @@ void nfs_writedata_release(struct nfs_write_data *wdata) put_nfs_open_context(wdata->args.context); if (wdata->pages.pagevec != wdata->pages.page_array) kfree(wdata->pages.pagevec); - if (wdata != &write_header->rpc_data) - kfree(wdata); - else + if (wdata == &write_header->rpc_data) { wdata->header = NULL; + wdata = NULL; + } if (atomic_dec_and_test(&hdr->refcnt)) hdr->completion_ops->completion(hdr); + /* Note: we only free the rpc_task after callbacks are done. + * See the comment in rpc_free_task() for why + */ + kfree(wdata); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_writedata_release); |