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authorNikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>2006-08-09 19:53:47 +0200
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-08-24 21:48:46 +0200
commitddeff520f02b92128132c282c350fa72afffb84a (patch)
tree238a720ece47a2f1e07b4d4cc53dff10860bbacb /fs
parentMerge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 (diff)
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NFS: Fix a potential deadlock in nfs_release_page
nfs_wb_page() waits on request completion and, as a result, is not safe to be called from nfs_release_page() invoked by VM scanner as part of GFP_NOFS allocation. Fix possible deadlock by analyzing gfp mask and refusing to release page if __GFP_FS is not set. Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <danilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> (cherry picked from 374d969debfb290bafcb41d28918dc6f7e43ce31 commit)
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/file.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index cc2b874ad5a4..48e892880d5b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -312,7 +312,13 @@ static void nfs_invalidate_page(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
static int nfs_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp)
{
- return !nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
+ if (gfp & __GFP_FS)
+ return !nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
+ else
+ /*
+ * Avoid deadlock on nfs_wait_on_request().
+ */
+ return 0;
}
const struct address_space_operations nfs_file_aops = {