We could recurse into NFS doing memory reclaim while sending a sync task, which might result in a deadlock. Set memalloc_nofs_save for sync task execution. Fixes: a1231fda7e94 ("SUNRPC: Set memalloc_nofs_save() on all rpciod/xprtiod jobs") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/sched.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c index cf702a5f7fe5..39ed0e0afe6d 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c @@ -963,8 +963,11 @@ void rpc_execute(struct rpc_task *task) rpc_set_active(task); rpc_make_runnable(rpciod_workqueue, task); - if (!is_async) + if (!is_async) { + unsigned int pflags = memalloc_nofs_save(); __rpc_execute(task); + memalloc_nofs_restore(pflags); + } } static void rpc_async_schedule(struct work_struct *work) -- 2.29.2