NFS: swap-out must always use STABLE writes.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Sun, 6 Mar 2022 23:41:44 +0000 (10:41 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Apr 2022 18:03:10 +0000 (20:03 +0200)
commit9d7bc9ee5d4b3709abb2f35618aa56ef1f76f360
tree420fac4bea0931e5c9d55d294d67a4937eec57f4
parent442d525b478ca25315f4476dfcef0b20ad32cc75
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>
fs/nfs/direct.c