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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Idan Kedar
2012-08-02 11:47:10 +03:00
کامیت شده توسط Trond Myklebust
والد 3dd4765fce
کامیت 8554116e17
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مشاهده پرونده

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ extern int nfs4_proc_getdevicelist(struct nfs_server *server,
struct pnfs_devicelist *devlist);
extern int nfs4_proc_getdeviceinfo(struct nfs_server *server,
struct pnfs_device *dev);
extern int nfs4_proc_layoutget(struct nfs4_layoutget *lgp);
extern int nfs4_proc_layoutget(struct nfs4_layoutget *lgp, gfp_t gfp_flags);
extern int nfs4_proc_layoutreturn(struct nfs4_layoutreturn *lrp);
/* pnfs.c */