From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 5a60e87603c4c533492c515b7f62578189b03c9c upstream. rbd_obj_request_create() is called on the main I/O path, so we need to use GFP_NOIO to make sure allocation doesn't blow back on us. Not all callers need this, but I'm still hardcoding the flag inside rather than making it a parameter because a) this is going to stable, and b) those callers shouldn't really use rbd_obj_request_create() and will be fixed in the future. More memory allocation fixes will follow. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rbd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c index 78bfd5021827..6aeaa28f94f0 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c @@ -1845,11 +1845,11 @@ static struct rbd_obj_request *rbd_obj_request_create(const char *object_name, rbd_assert(obj_request_type_valid(type)); size = strlen(object_name) + 1; - name = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + name = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO); if (!name) return NULL; - obj_request = kmem_cache_zalloc(rbd_obj_request_cache, GFP_KERNEL); + obj_request = kmem_cache_zalloc(rbd_obj_request_cache, GFP_NOIO); if (!obj_request) { kfree(name); return NULL; -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html