[RESEND PATCH v5 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write

[Minchan Kim]

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_ATOMIC and GFP_NOIO.
In read path, we called kmap_atomic so that we need GFP_ATOMIC
while we need GFP_NOIO in write path.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
We could use GFP_IO instead of GFP_ATOMIC in zram_bvec_read with
some modification related to buffer allocation in case of partial IO.
But it needs more churn and prevent merge this patch into stable
if we should send this to stable so I'd like to keep it as simple
as possbile. GFP_IO usage could be separate patch after we merge it.
Thanks.
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 61fb8f1..b285b3a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec,
 	user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
 	if (is_partial_io(bvec))
 		/* Use  a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
-		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+		uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	else
 		uncmem = user_mem;
 
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ 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

-- 
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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