Re: [PATCH] mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr dereference

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 02:48:52PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 09-04-18 20:25:06, Chao Yu wrote:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > index c85cccc2e800..cc63f8c448f0 100644
> > --- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
> > @@ -339,10 +339,10 @@ struct inode *f2fs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
> >  make_now:
> >  	if (ino == F2FS_NODE_INO(sbi)) {
> >  		inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &f2fs_node_aops;
> > -		mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_F2FS_ZERO);
> > +		mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
> 
> An unrelated question. Why do you make all allocations for the mapping
> NOFS automatically? What kind of reclaim recursion problems are you
> trying to prevent?

It's worth noting that this is endemic in filesystems.

$ git grep mapping_set_gfp_mask.*FS
drivers/block/loop.c:   mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, lo->old_gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS));
fs/btrfs/disk-io.c:     mapping_set_gfp_mask(fs_info->btree_inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/f2fs/inode.c:                mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_F2FS_ZERO);
fs/f2fs/inode.c:                mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_F2FS_ZERO);
fs/gfs2/glock.c:                mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:   mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:      mapping_set_gfp_mask(ip->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/jfs/super.c: mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/nilfs2/gcinode.c:    mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/nilfs2/page.c:       mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/reiserfs/xattr.c:    mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c:      mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, (gfp_mask & ~(__GFP_FS)));