linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write

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Message-Id: <1359935171-12749-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon,  4 Feb 2013 08:46:08 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@...nok.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, jmarchan@...hat.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v7 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write

Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path
if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cause deadlock with
reclaim path like below.

write_page from fs
fs_lock
allocation(GFP_KERNEL)
reclaim
pageout
				write_page from fs
				fs_lock <-- deadlock

This patch fixes it by using GFP_NOIO.  In read path, we
reorganize code flow so that kmap_atomic is called after the
GFP_NOIO allocation.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>
[ penberg@...nel.org: don't use GFP_ATOMIC ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 941b7c6..262265e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -217,11 +217,12 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
 	if (is_partial_io(bvec))
 		/* Use  a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
-		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	else
+		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
+
+	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
+	if (!is_partial_io(bvec))
 		uncmem = user_mem;
 
 	if (!uncmem) {
@@ -268,7 +269,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
 		 * This is a partial IO. We need to read the full page
 		 * before to write the changes.
 		 */
-		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
 		if (!uncmem) {
 			pr_info("Error allocating temp memory!\n");
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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