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* [PATCH] fs: nfs: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in nfs_access_add_cache
@ 2017-06-05  8:05 Jia-Ju Bai
  2017-06-05 11:48 ` Trond Myklebust
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jia-Ju Bai @ 2017-06-05  8:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: trond.myklebust, anna.schumaker; +Cc: linux-nfs, linux-kernel, Jia-Ju Bai

The driver may sleep under a rcu read lock, and function call path is:
nfs_permission (acquire the lock by rcu_read_lock)
  nfs_do_access
    nfs_access_add_cache
      kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, "GFP_KERNEL" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC".

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
---
 fs/nfs/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 32ccd77..7a074db 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ static void nfs_access_add_rbtree(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_access_entry *
 
 void nfs_access_add_cache(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_access_entry *set)
 {
-	struct nfs_access_entry *cache = kmalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct nfs_access_entry *cache = kmalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (cache == NULL)
 		return;
 	RB_CLEAR_NODE(&cache->rb_node);
-- 
1.7.9.5



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