SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc

Currently rpc_malloc sets req->rq_buffer internally.  Make this a more
generic interface:  return a pointer to the new buffer (or NULL) and
make the caller set req->rq_buffer and req->rq_bufsize.  This looks much
more like kmalloc and eliminates the side effects.

To fix a potential deadlock, this patch also replaces GFP_NOFS with
GFP_NOWAIT in rpc_malloc.  This prevents async RPCs from sleeping outside
the RPC's task scheduler while allocating their buffer.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
index 3069ecca0129..2047fb202a13 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ struct rpc_task *rpc_wake_up_next(struct rpc_wait_queue *);
 void            rpc_wake_up_status(struct rpc_wait_queue *, int);
 void            rpc_delay(struct rpc_task *, unsigned long);
 void *          rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *, size_t);
-void            rpc_free(struct rpc_task *);
+void            rpc_free(void *);
 int             rpciod_up(void);
 void            rpciod_down(void);
 int             __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(struct rpc_task *task, int (*)(void *));