From a19fd1d61797e0a0408537ecb97c57dd70c0045e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 10:41:44 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory [ 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 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- 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 c045f63d11fa6..6e4d476c63248 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c @@ -1012,8 +1012,10 @@ 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 16e5696314a4f..a522771155002 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)) -- 2.30.2