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| author | Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> | 2013-07-11 02:41:15 +0400 |
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| committer | Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> | 2013-07-11 02:41:15 +0400 |
| commit | 1c0e883e86ece31880fac2f84b260545d66a39e0 (patch) | |
| tree | b56dd76ef7c1c0598af5b830e2a3d8f8a38f772b /drivers | |
| parent | 6c182cd88d179cbbd06f4f8a8a19b6977940753f (diff) | |
| download | linux-1c0e883e86ece31880fac2f84b260545d66a39e0.tar.xz | |
dm ioctl: set noio flag to avoid __vmalloc deadlock
Set noio flag while calling __vmalloc() because it doesn't fully respect
gfp flags to avoid a possible deadlock (see commit
502624bdad3dba45dfaacaf36b7d83e39e74b2d2).
This should be backported to stable kernels 3.8 and newer. The kernel 3.8
doesn't have memalloc_noio_save(), so we should set and restore process
flag PF_MEMALLOC instead.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c index aa04f0224642..81a79b739e97 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -1644,7 +1644,10 @@ static int copy_params(struct dm_ioctl __user *user, struct dm_ioctl *param_kern } if (!dmi) { + unsigned noio_flag; + noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save(); dmi = __vmalloc(param_kernel->data_size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_REPEAT | __GFP_HIGH, PAGE_KERNEL); + memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag); if (dmi) *param_flags |= DM_PARAMS_VMALLOC; } |