[PATCH 5.16 0713/1017] SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustnt block waiting for memory

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-05T10:04:44Z

From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit c487216bec83b0c5a8803e5c61433d33ad7b104d ]

When memory is short, new worker threads cannot be created and we depend
on the minimum one rpciod thread to be able to handle everything.
So it must not block waiting for memory.

mempools are particularly a problem as memory can only be released back
to the mempool by an async rpc task running. If all available
workqueue threads are waiting on the mempool, no thread is available to
return anything.

rpc_malloc() can block, and this might cause deadlocks.
So check RPC_IS_ASYNC(), rather than RPC_IS_SWAPPER() to determine if
blocking is acceptable.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/sunrpc/sched.c | 4 +++-
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index e2c835482791..d5b6e897f5a5 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -1023,8 +1023,10 @@ int rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *task)
struct rpc_buffer *buf;
gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS;

+ if (RPC_IS_ASYNC(task))
+ gfp = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
- gfp = __GFP_MEMALLOC | GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
+ gfp |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;

size += sizeof(struct rpc_buffer);
if (size <= RPC_BUFFER_MAXSIZE)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
index 16e5696314a4..a52277115500 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
@@ -574,8 +574,10 @@ xprt_rdma_allocate(struct rpc_task *task)
gfp_t flags;

flags = RPCRDMA_DEF_GFP;
+ if (RPC_IS_ASYNC(task))
+ flags = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
- flags = __GFP_MEMALLOC | GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
+ flags |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;

if (!rpcrdma_check_regbuf(r_xprt, req->rl_sendbuf, rqst->rq_callsize,
flags))
--
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