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| author | Idan Kedar <idank@tonian.com> | 2012-08-02 11:47:10 +0300 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2012-08-02 17:38:54 -0400 |
| commit | 8554116e17eef055d9dd58a94b3427cb2ad1c317 (patch) | |
| tree | 75cb529c3ab86a496536a285542d79d064284d48 /fs/nfs/pnfs.h | |
| parent | 3dd4765fce04c0b4af1e0bc4c0b10f906f95fabc (diff) | |
pnfs: defer release of pages in layoutget
we have encountered a bug whereby reading a lot of files (copying
fedora's /bin) from a pNFS mount and hitting Ctrl+C in the middle caused
a general protection fault in xdr_shrink_bufhead. this function is
called when decoding the response from LAYOUTGET. the decoding is done
by a worker thread, and the caller of LAYOUTGET waits for the worker
thread to complete.
hitting Ctrl+C caused the synchronous wait to end and the next thing the
caller does is to free the pages, so when the worker thread calls
xdr_shrink_bufhead, the pages are gone. therefore, the cleanup of these
pages has been moved to nfs4_layoutget_release.
Signed-off-by: Idan Kedar <idank@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/pnfs.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/pnfs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs.h b/fs/nfs/pnfs.h index 2c6c80503ba..5ea019e80b4 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.h +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.h @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ extern int nfs4_proc_getdevicelist(struct nfs_server *server, struct pnfs_devicelist *devlist); extern int nfs4_proc_getdeviceinfo(struct nfs_server *server, struct pnfs_device *dev); -extern int nfs4_proc_layoutget(struct nfs4_layoutget *lgp); +extern int nfs4_proc_layoutget(struct nfs4_layoutget *lgp, gfp_t gfp_flags); extern int nfs4_proc_layoutreturn(struct nfs4_layoutreturn *lrp); /* pnfs.c */ |