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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2010-05-13 18:51:03 +0200
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2010-05-14 21:09:34 +0200
commitd300a41ef1c39cc5e6b90fd8834ea7ab16b5c48f (patch)
tree2d439ac7e0a95329daf686ea27ba0cea35acb301 /net
parentNFS: Read requests can use GFP_KERNEL. (diff)
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SUNRPC: Dont run rpcauth_cache_shrinker() when gfp_mask is GFP_NOFS
Under some circumstances, put_rpccred() can end up allocating memory, so check the gfp_mask to prevent deadlocks. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/auth.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth.c b/net/sunrpc/auth.c
index 95afe79dd9d7..0667a36aee78 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth.c
@@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ rpcauth_cache_shrinker(int nr_to_scan, gfp_t gfp_mask)
LIST_HEAD(free);
int res;
+ if ((gfp_mask & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL)
+ return (nr_to_scan == 0) ? 0 : -1;
if (list_empty(&cred_unused))
return 0;
spin_lock(&rpc_credcache_lock);