dlm: always use GFP_NOFS

Replace all GFP_KERNEL and ls_allocation with GFP_NOFS.
ls_allocation would be GFP_KERNEL for userland lockspaces
and GFP_NOFS for file system lockspaces.

It was discovered that any lockspaces on the system can
affect all others by triggering memory reclaim in the
file system which could in turn call back into the dlm
to acquire locks, deadlocking dlm threads that were
shared by all lockspaces, like dlm_recv.

Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
index d489fcc86713..c010ecfc0d29 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, int namelen, void **lockspace,
 
 	error = -ENOMEM;
 
-	ls = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_ls) + namelen, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ls = kzalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_ls) + namelen, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ls)
 		goto out;
 	memcpy(ls->ls_name, name, namelen);
@@ -443,11 +443,6 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, int namelen, void **lockspace,
 	if (flags & DLM_LSFL_TIMEWARN)
 		set_bit(LSFL_TIMEWARN, &ls->ls_flags);
 
-	if (flags & DLM_LSFL_FS)
-		ls->ls_allocation = GFP_NOFS;
-	else
-		ls->ls_allocation = GFP_KERNEL;
-
 	/* ls_exflags are forced to match among nodes, and we don't
 	   need to require all nodes to have some flags set */
 	ls->ls_exflags = (flags & ~(DLM_LSFL_TIMEWARN | DLM_LSFL_FS |
@@ -456,7 +451,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, int namelen, void **lockspace,
 	size = dlm_config.ci_rsbtbl_size;
 	ls->ls_rsbtbl_size = size;
 
-	ls->ls_rsbtbl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_rsbtable) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ls->ls_rsbtbl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_rsbtable) * size, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ls->ls_rsbtbl)
 		goto out_lsfree;
 	for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
@@ -468,7 +463,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, int namelen, void **lockspace,
 	size = dlm_config.ci_lkbtbl_size;
 	ls->ls_lkbtbl_size = size;
 
-	ls->ls_lkbtbl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_lkbtable) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ls->ls_lkbtbl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_lkbtable) * size, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ls->ls_lkbtbl)
 		goto out_rsbfree;
 	for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
@@ -480,7 +475,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, int namelen, void **lockspace,
 	size = dlm_config.ci_dirtbl_size;
 	ls->ls_dirtbl_size = size;
 
-	ls->ls_dirtbl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_dirtable) * size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ls->ls_dirtbl = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dlm_dirtable) * size, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ls->ls_dirtbl)
 		goto out_lkbfree;
 	for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
@@ -527,7 +522,7 @@ static int new_lockspace(const char *name, int namelen, void **lockspace,
 	mutex_init(&ls->ls_requestqueue_mutex);
 	mutex_init(&ls->ls_clear_proc_locks);
 
-	ls->ls_recover_buf = kmalloc(dlm_config.ci_buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ls->ls_recover_buf = kmalloc(dlm_config.ci_buffer_size, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!ls->ls_recover_buf)
 		goto out_dirfree;