Subject: Re: general protection fault in encode_rpcb_string

From: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 12:11:30 -0400

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 11:47:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] sunrpc: convert unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_NOFS

It's OK to sleep here, we just don't want to recurse into the filesystem
as this writeout could be waiting on this.

As a next step: the documentation for GFP_NOFS says "Please try to avoid
using this flag directly and instead use memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} to
mark the whole scope which cannot/shouldn't recurse into the FS layer
with a short explanation why. All allocation requests will inherit
GFP_NOFS implicitly."

But I'm not sure where to do this.  Should the workqueue could be
arranging that for us in the case of workqueues created with
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM?

Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[email-masked]>
---
 net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:54:36PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Yes, and we can probably convert it, and the other GFP_ATOMIC
> allocations in the rpcbind client to use GFP_NOFS in order to improve
> reliability.

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
index 82c120e51d64..576e84a1adee 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ void rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task *task)
 		goto bailout_nofree;
 	}
 
-	map = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rpcbind_args), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	map = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rpcbind_args), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!map) {
 		status = -ENOMEM;
 		dprintk("RPC: %5u %s: no memory available\n",
@@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ void rpcb_getport_async(struct rpc_task *task)
 	case RPCBVERS_4:
 	case RPCBVERS_3:
 		map->r_netid = xprt->address_strings[RPC_DISPLAY_NETID];
-		map->r_addr = rpc_sockaddr2uaddr(sap, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		map->r_addr = rpc_sockaddr2uaddr(sap, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!map->r_addr) {
 			status = -ENOMEM;
 			dprintk("RPC: %5u %s: no memory available\n",
-- 
2.17.0