netdev - Re: [PATCH 30/30] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <1216983472.7257.365.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:57:52 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, trond.myklebust@....uio.no,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30/30] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with
	swap over NFS.

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 19:46 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > GFP_NOFS is not enough, since swap traffic is IO, hence fall back to GFP_NOIO.
> 
> this comment imply turn on GFP_NOIO, but the code is s/NOFS/NOIO/. why?

Does the misunderstanding stem from the use of 'enough'?

GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate IO,
just not of any filesystem data.

The problem is that previuosly NOFS was correct because that avoids
recursion into the NFS code, it now is not, because also IO (swap) can
lead to this recursion.

Therefore we must tighten the restriction and use NOIO.

> >  struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void)
> >  {
> > -	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
> > +	struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO);
> 
> 
> 
> 

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html