Some memory allocations in cifs use GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS as gfs flags but GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS equals to GFP_KERNEL. So these GFP_NOFS have no effect. This patch fixes these flags and also removes unnecessary casts to mempool_alloc. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-cifs-client@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/cifs/misc.c | 6 ++---- fs/cifs/transport.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index: 2.6-git/fs/cifs/misc.c =================================================================== --- 2.6-git.orig/fs/cifs/misc.c +++ 2.6-git/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);*/ Index: 2.6-git/fs/cifs/transport.c =================================================================== --- 2.6-git.orig/fs/cifs/transport.c +++ 2.6-git/fs/cifs/transport.c @@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ AllocMidQEntry(const struct smb_hdr *smb 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 { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html