cifs: don't use GFP_KERNEL with GFP_NOFS

GFP_KERNEL and GFP_NOFS are mutually exclusive. If you combine them, you end up
with plain GFP_KERNEL which can deadlock in cases where you really want
GFP_NOFS.

Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/misc.c b/fs/cifs/misc.c
index 4b17f8fe3157..654d972a88f4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@ -150,8 +150,7 @@ cifs_buf_get(void)
    but it may be more efficient to always alloc same size
    albeit slightly larger than necessary and maxbuffersize
    defaults to this and can not be bigger */
-        ret_buf = (struct smb_hdr *) mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp,
-                                                   GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS);
+        ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
 
         /* clear the first few header bytes */
         /* for most paths, more is cleared in header_assemble */
@@ -188,8 +187,7 @@ cifs_small_buf_get(void)
    but it may be more efficient to always alloc same size
    albeit slightly larger than necessary and maxbuffersize
    defaults to this and can not be bigger */
-        ret_buf = (struct smb_hdr *) mempool_alloc(cifs_sm_req_poolp,
-                                                   GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS);
+        ret_buf = mempool_alloc(cifs_sm_req_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
         if (ret_buf) {
         /* No need to clear memory here, cleared in header assemble */
         /*      memset(ret_buf, 0, sizeof(struct smb_hdr) + 27);*/
diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c
index e286db9f5ee2..bf0e6d8e382a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/transport.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@ AllocMidQEntry(const struct smb_hdr *smb_buffer, struct cifsSesInfo *ses)
                 return NULL;
         }
 
-        temp = (struct mid_q_entry *) mempool_alloc(cifs_mid_poolp,
-                                                    GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFS);
+        temp = mempool_alloc(cifs_mid_poolp, GFP_NOFS);
         if (temp == NULL)
                 return temp;
         else {