From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
GFP_KERNEL and GFP_NOFS are mutually exclusive. If you combine them, you end up
with plain GFP_KERNEL which can deadlock in cases where you really want
GFP_NOFS.
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
---
fs/cifs/misc.c | 6 ++----
fs/cifs/transport.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/misc.c b/fs/cifs/misc.c
index 4b17f8f..654d972 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@ -150,8 +150,7 @@ cifs_buf_get(void)
but it may be more efficient to always alloc same size
albeit slightly larger than necessary and maxbuffersize
defaults to this and can not be bigger */
- ret_buf = (struct smb_hdr *) mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp,
- GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS);
+ ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
/* clear the first few header bytes */
/* for most paths, more is cleared in header_assemble */
@@ -188,8 +187,7 @@ cifs_small_buf_get(void)
but it may be more efficient to always alloc same size
albeit slightly larger than necessary and maxbuffersize
defaults to this and can not be bigger */
- ret_buf = (struct smb_hdr *) mempool_alloc(cifs_sm_req_poolp,
- GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS);
+ ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_sm_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
if (ret_buf) {
/* No need to clear memory here, cleared in header assemble */
/* memset(ret_buf, 0, sizeof(struct smb_hdr) + 27);*/
diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c
index 000ac50..80ab4c8 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ AllocMidQEntry(const struct smb_hdr *smb_buffer, struct cifsSesInfo *ses)
return NULL;
}
- temp = (struct mid_q_entry *) mempool_alloc(cifs_mid_poolp,
- GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS);
+ temp = mempool_alloc(cifs_mid_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
if (temp == NULL)
return temp;
else {
--
1.5.4.3
--
