Merge branch 'stop-corrupting-socket-s-task_frag'
Benjamin Coddington says: ==================== Stop corrupting socket's task_frag The networking code uses flags in sk_allocation to determine if it can use current->task_frag, however in-kernel users of sockets may stop setting sk_allocation when they convert to the preferred memalloc_nofs_save/restore, as SUNRPC has done in commit a1231fda ("SUNRPC: Set memalloc_nofs_save() on all rpciod/xprtiod jobs"). This will cause corruption in current->task_frag when recursing into the network layer for those subsystems during page fault or reclaim. The corruption is difficult to diagnose because stack traces may not contain the offending subsystem at all. The corruption is unlikely to show up in testing because it requires memory pressure, and so subsystems that convert to memalloc_nofs_save/restore are likely to continue to run into this issue. Previous reports and proposed fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/96a18bd00cbc6cb554603cc0d6ef1c551965b078.1663762494.git.gnault@redhat.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/b4d8cb09c913d3e34f853736f3f5628abfd7f4b6.1656699567.git.gnault@redhat.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/de6d99321d1dcaa2ad456b92b3680aa77c07a747.1665401788.git.gnault@redhat.com/ Guilluame Nault has done all of the hard work tracking this problem down and finding the best fix for this issue. I'm just taking a turn posting another fix. ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1671194454.git.bcodding@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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