> On Oct 25, 2016, at 15:59, Fields Bruce James <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 07:34:43PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2016, at 14:45, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> As of ac4e97abce9b "scatterlist: sg_set_buf() argument must be in linear
>>> mapping", sg_set_buf hits a BUG when make_checksum_v2->xdr_process_buf,
>>> among other callers, passes it memory on the stack.
>>>
>>> We only need a scatterlist to pass this to the crypto code, and it seems
>>> like overkill to require kmalloc'd memory just to encrypt a few bytes,
>>> but for now this seems the best fix.
>>>
>>> Note many of these callers are in the NFS write paths, so we shouldn't
>>> really be allocating GFP_KERNEL. But we already have other allocations
>>> in these code paths. A larger redesign may be necessary to allow
>>> allocations to be done earlier.
>>
>> NACK… I agree that there may already be borkage in RPCSEC_GSS-land, but that’s not a reason to be adding to the pile of things that need to be fixed… The allocations that lie in the RPC client’s encode/decode path do need to be GFP_NOFS….
>
> OK. Any disadvantage to keeping this patch with just GFP_NOFS
> allocations everywhere that might be in the write path?
It’s what we have to do everywhere else in the RPC client, so I can’t see why it should be a problem.
��.n��������+%������w��{.n�����{���{ay� ʇڙ���f���h������_�(�階�ݢj"��������G����?���&��
