Merge tag 'ceph-for-4.11-rc4' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client

Pull ceph fix from Ilya Dryomov:
 "A fix for a writeback deadlock caused by a GFP_KERNEL allocation on
  the reclaim path, tagged for stable"

* tag 'ceph-for-4.11-rc4' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  libceph: force GFP_NOIO for socket allocations

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
index 38dcf1eb427de..f76bb33326138 100644
--- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
+++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/net.h>
 #include <linux/nsproxy.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/socket.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
@@ -469,11 +470,16 @@ static int ceph_tcp_connect(struct ceph_connection *con)
 {
 	struct sockaddr_storage *paddr = &con->peer_addr.in_addr;
 	struct socket *sock;
+	unsigned int noio_flag;
 	int ret;
 
 	BUG_ON(con->sock);
+
+	/* sock_create_kern() allocates with GFP_KERNEL */
+	noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
 	ret = sock_create_kern(read_pnet(&con->msgr->net), paddr->ss_family,
 			       SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP, &sock);
+	memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 	sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOFS;