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NeilBrown 14e6bab373 NFS: swap-out must always use STABLE writes.
[ Upstream commit c265de257f558a05c1859ee9e3fed04883b9ec0e ]

The commit handling code is not safe against memory-pressure deadlocks
when writing to swap.  In particular, nfs_commitdata_alloc() blocks
indefinitely waiting for memory, and this can consume all available
workqueue threads.

swap-out most likely uses STABLE writes anyway as COND_STABLE indicates
that a stable write should be used if the write fits in a single
request, and it normally does.  However if we ever swap with a small
wsize, or gather unusually large numbers of pages for a single write,
this might change.

For safety, make it explicit in the code that direct writes used for swap
must always use FLUSH_STABLE.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-04-15 14:18:36 +02:00
arch xen: delay xen_hvm_init_time_ops() if kdump is boot on vcpu>=32 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
block Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"" 2022-04-15 14:18:23 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: authenc - Fix sleep in atomic context in decrypt_tail 2022-04-15 14:18:04 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: spi: mxic: The interrupt property is not mandatory 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
drivers clk: Enforce that disjoints limits are invalid 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
fs NFS: swap-out must always use STABLE writes. 2022-04-15 14:18:36 +02:00
include NFS: swap IO handling is slightly different for O_DIRECT IO 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
init init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel dma-debug: fix return value of __setup handlers 2022-04-15 14:18:18 +02:00
lib XArray: Update the LRU list in xas_split() 2022-04-15 14:18:28 +02:00
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mm mm/usercopy: return 1 from hardened_usercopy __setup() handler 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
net SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins/stackleak: Exactly match strings instead of prefixes 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
security Fix incorrect type in assignment of ipv6 port for audit 2022-04-15 14:18:22 +02:00
sound ASoC: topology: Allow TLV control to be either read or write 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
tools bpf: Fix comment for helper bpf_current_task_under_cgroup() 2022-04-15 14:18:30 +02:00
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