SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc
Currently rpc_malloc sets req->rq_buffer internally. Make this a more
generic interface: return a pointer to the new buffer (or NULL) and
make the caller set req->rq_buffer and req->rq_bufsize. This looks much
more like kmalloc and eliminates the side effects.
To fix a potential deadlock, this patch also replaces GFP_NOFS with
GFP_NOWAIT in rpc_malloc. This prevents async RPCs from sleeping outside
the RPC's task scheduler while allocating their buffer.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
index 7aa2950..745afc1 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
void (*set_port)(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, unsigned short port);
void (*connect)(struct rpc_task *task);
void * (*buf_alloc)(struct rpc_task *task, size_t size);
- void (*buf_free)(struct rpc_task *task);
+ void (*buf_free)(void *buffer);
int (*send_request)(struct rpc_task *task);
void (*set_retrans_timeout)(struct rpc_task *task);
void (*timer)(struct rpc_task *task);