[SCSI] fix possible deadlock in scsi_lib.c
If a filesystem, while writing out data, decides that it is good to issue a cache flush on a SCSI drive (or other 'sd' device), it will call blkdev_issue_flush which calls ->issue_flush_fn which is scsi_issue_flush_fn. This calls sd_issue_flush which calls sd_sync_cache, which calls scsi_execute_request. This will (as sshdr != NULL) call kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL) If memory is tight, the presence of GFP_KERNEL may cause write requests to be sent to some filesystem to free up memory, however if that filesystem is waiting for the issue_flush_fn to complete, you could get a deadlock. I wonder if it might be more appropriate to use GFP_NOIO as in the following patch. I wonder if it might be even more appropriate to cope better with a kmalloc failure, especially as in this use, sd_sync_cache only will use the sense information to print out a more informative error message. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ int scsi_execute_req(struct scsi_device *sdev, const unsigned char *cmd,
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int result;
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if (sshdr) {
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sense = kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
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sense = kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_NOIO);
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if (!sense)
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return DRIVER_ERROR << 24;
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memset(sense, 0, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);
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