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authorTrond Myklebust2022-01-29 13:32:45 -0500
committerTrond Myklebust2022-02-25 18:50:12 -0500
commit3e17898aca293a24dae757a440a50aa63ca29671 (patch)
treeb1dfbeab0f379693af02ccd21e2fcbe9e6a590af /fs
parentab22e2cbbccbcf65bed9524605ac5dacb89471e8 (diff)
NFSv4: Protect the state recovery thread against direct reclaim
If memory allocation triggers a direct reclaim from the state recovery thread, then we can deadlock. Use memalloc_nofs_save/restore to ensure that doesn't happen. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/nfs4state.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index f5a62c0d999b..0f4818627ef0 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <linux/sunrpc/clnt.h>
@@ -2560,9 +2561,17 @@ static void nfs4_layoutreturn_any_run(struct nfs_client *clp)
static void nfs4_state_manager(struct nfs_client *clp)
{
+ unsigned int memflags;
int status = 0;
const char *section = "", *section_sep = "";
+ /*
+ * State recovery can deadlock if the direct reclaim code tries
+ * start NFS writeback. So ensure memory allocations are all
+ * GFP_NOFS.
+ */
+ memflags = memalloc_nofs_save();
+
/* Ensure exclusive access to NFSv4 state */
do {
trace_nfs4_state_mgr(clp);
@@ -2657,6 +2666,7 @@ static void nfs4_state_manager(struct nfs_client *clp)
clear_bit(NFS4CLNT_RECLAIM_NOGRACE, &clp->cl_state);
}
+ memalloc_nofs_restore(memflags);
nfs4_end_drain_session(clp);
nfs4_clear_state_manager_bit(clp);
@@ -2674,6 +2684,7 @@ static void nfs4_state_manager(struct nfs_client *clp)
return;
if (test_and_set_bit(NFS4CLNT_MANAGER_RUNNING, &clp->cl_state) != 0)
return;
+ memflags = memalloc_nofs_save();
} while (refcount_read(&clp->cl_count) > 1 && !signalled());
goto out_drain;
@@ -2686,6 +2697,7 @@ out_error:
clp->cl_hostname, -status);
ssleep(1);
out_drain:
+ memalloc_nofs_restore(memflags);
nfs4_end_drain_session(clp);
nfs4_clear_state_manager_bit(clp);
}