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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> | 2008-09-15 14:22:54 +0400 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2008-09-23 02:23:56 +0400 |
| commit | 232087cb734c7035c0a8947fb05d3e8092ff6c4d (patch) | |
| tree | 07b789eaac28bfc26b9d9889f30a0d4e25d9dd43 | |
| parent | 388e57b2759672a3e3ede0d2f7e95124b417b0a3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-232087cb734c7035c0a8947fb05d3e8092ff6c4d.tar.xz | |
cifs: don't use GFP_KERNEL with GFP_NOFS
GFP_KERNEL and GFP_NOFS are mutually exclusive. If you combine them, you end up
with plain GFP_KERNEL which can deadlock in cases where you really want
GFP_NOFS.
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/misc.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/transport.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/misc.c b/fs/cifs/misc.c index 4b17f8fe3157..654d972a88f4 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/misc.c +++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c @@ -150,8 +150,7 @@ cifs_buf_get(void) but it may be more efficient to always alloc same size albeit slightly larger than necessary and maxbuffersize defaults to this and can not be bigger */ - ret_buf = (struct smb_hdr *) mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp, - GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS); + ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS); /* clear the first few header bytes */ /* for most paths, more is cleared in header_assemble */ @@ -188,8 +187,7 @@ cifs_small_buf_get(void) but it may be more efficient to always alloc same size albeit slightly larger than necessary and maxbuffersize defaults to this and can not be bigger */ - ret_buf = (struct smb_hdr *) mempool_alloc(cifs_sm_req_poolp, - GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS); + ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_sm_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS); if (ret_buf) { /* No need to clear memory here, cleared in header assemble */ /* memset(ret_buf, 0, sizeof(struct smb_hdr) + 27);*/ diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c index e286db9f5ee2..bf0e6d8e382a 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/transport.c +++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c @@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ AllocMidQEntry(const struct smb_hdr *smb_buffer, struct cifsSesInfo *ses) return NULL; } - temp = (struct mid_q_entry *) mempool_alloc(cifs_mid_poolp, - GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS); + temp = mempool_alloc(cifs_mid_poolp, GFP_NOFS); if (temp == NULL) return temp; else { |