This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
SUNRPC: Set memalloc_nofs_save() for sync tasks
to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sunrpc-set-memalloc_nofs_save-for-sync-tasks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d1e7558b23e0ca373b4cdc8c79d0b78fea8b363a
Author: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Mar 3 08:47:16 2021 -0500
SUNRPC: Set memalloc_nofs_save() for sync tasks
[ Upstream commit f0940f4b3284a00f38a5d42e6067c2aaa20e1f2e ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
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)
