pnfs: defer release of pages in layoutget
we have encountered a bug whereby reading a lot of files (copying
fedora's /bin) from a pNFS mount and hitting Ctrl+C in the middle caused
a general protection fault in xdr_shrink_bufhead. this function is
called when decoding the response from LAYOUTGET. the decoding is done
by a worker thread, and the caller of LAYOUTGET waits for the worker
thread to complete.
hitting Ctrl+C caused the synchronous wait to end and the next thing the
caller does is to free the pages, so when the worker thread calls
xdr_shrink_bufhead, the pages are gone. therefore, the cleanup of these
pages has been moved to nfs4_layoutget_release.
Signed-off-by: Idan Kedar <idank@tonian.com>
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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