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| author | Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> | 2022-11-18 18:00:11 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-11-22 18:50:44 -0800 |
| commit | ea4452de2ae987342fadbdd2c044034e6480daad (patch) | |
| tree | 5789122b9ff301d81d2cc73e48300f01124bfe5a /mm/failslab.c | |
| parent | de1ccfb648243a031cfbdc2d5571dfdaf5023106 (diff) | |
mm: fix unexpected changes to {failslab|fail_page_alloc}.attr
When we specify __GFP_NOWARN, we only expect that no warnings will be
issued for current caller. But in the __should_failslab() and
__should_fail_alloc_page(), the local GFP flags alter the global
{failslab|fail_page_alloc}.attr, which is persistent and shared by all
tasks. This is not what we expected, let's fix it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unexport should_fail_ex()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221118100011.2634-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Fixes: 3f913fc5f974 ("mm: fix missing handler for __GFP_NOWARN")
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/failslab.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/failslab.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/failslab.c b/mm/failslab.c index 58df9789f1d2..ffc420c0e767 100644 --- a/mm/failslab.c +++ b/mm/failslab.c @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ static struct { bool __should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags) { + int flags = 0; + /* No fault-injection for bootstrap cache */ if (unlikely(s == kmem_cache)) return false; @@ -30,10 +32,16 @@ bool __should_failslab(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags) if (failslab.cache_filter && !(s->flags & SLAB_FAILSLAB)) return false; + /* + * In some cases, it expects to specify __GFP_NOWARN + * to avoid printing any information(not just a warning), + * thus avoiding deadlocks. See commit 6b9dbedbe349 for + * details. + */ if (gfpflags & __GFP_NOWARN) - failslab.attr.no_warn = true; + flags |= FAULT_NOWARN; - return should_fail(&failslab.attr, s->object_size); + return should_fail_ex(&failslab.attr, s->object_size, flags); } static int __init setup_failslab(char *str) |