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authorBenjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>2025-07-09 21:47:43 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-15 16:39:22 +0200
commita3395042a9b3789e178630831219d49017b2b053 (patch)
treefcfa8338628914c9fd2443a76d10707fea5384c5
parentf0fc8cf4d6c8596df47f793e9f9798ccf650e137 (diff)
NFS: Fixup allocation flags for nfsiod's __GFP_NORETRY
[ Upstream commit 99765233ab42bf7a4950377ad7894dce8a5c0e60 ] If the NFS client is doing writeback from a workqueue context, avoid using __GFP_NORETRY for allocations if the task has set PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO or PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS. The combination of these flags makes memory allocation failures much more likely. We've seen those allocation failures show up when the loopback driver is doing writeback from a workqueue to a file on NFS, where memory allocation failure results in errors or corruption within the loopback device's filesystem. Suggested-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org> Fixes: 0bae835b63c5 ("NFS: Avoid writeback threads getting stuck in mempool_alloc()") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f83ac1155a4bc670f2663959a7a068571e06afd9.1752111622.git.bcodding@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/internal.h9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index 69c2c10ee658..d8f768254f16 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -671,9 +671,12 @@ nfs_write_match_verf(const struct nfs_writeverf *verf,
static inline gfp_t nfs_io_gfp_mask(void)
{
- if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
- return GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
- return GFP_KERNEL;
+ gfp_t ret = current_gfp_context(GFP_KERNEL);
+
+ /* For workers __GFP_NORETRY only with __GFP_IO or __GFP_FS */
+ if ((current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) && ret == GFP_KERNEL)
+ ret |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN;
+ return ret;
}
/*