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/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 432ee92cf262..81fe830da8aa 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ void xprt_release(struct rpc_task *task)
                 mod_timer(&xprt->timer,
                                 xprt->last_used + xprt->idle_timeout);
         spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
-        xprt->ops->buf_free(task);
+        xprt->ops->buf_free(req->rq_buffer);
         task->tk_rqstp = NULL;
         if (req->rq_release_snd_buf)
                 req->rq_release_snd_buf(req);