netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] sunrpc: Use GFP_NOFS to prevent use of current->task

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Date:   Wed, 07 Dec 2022 06:47:43 -0500
From:   Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>
To:     Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sunrpc: Use GFP_NOFS to prevent use of
 current->task_frag.

On 25 Oct 2022, at 7:15, Guillaume Nault wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 02:18:37PM +0200, Guillaume Nault wrote:
>> Still, that looks like net-next material to me. Reverting sunrpc to use
>> GFP_NOFS looks better for an immediate bug fix.
>
> Could we please move forward with this patch? This bug really needs to be
> fixed. So please let's either revert to GFP_NOFS or actively work on a
> different solution.

Hey Trond, Anna - I think the right thing to do here is send this patch to
-stable as stable-only while we try to get this fixed up.  Any objections to
that?

Ben