The driver may sleep under a rcu read lock, and function call path is:
nfs_permission (acquire the lock by rcu_read_lock)
  nfs_do_access
    nfs_access_add_cache
      kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

To fix it, "GFP_KERNEL" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC".

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <[email protected]>
---
 fs/nfs/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 32ccd77..7a074db 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ static void nfs_access_add_rbtree(struct inode *inode, 
struct nfs_access_entry *
 
 void nfs_access_add_cache(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_access_entry *set)
 {
-       struct nfs_access_entry *cache = kmalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL);
+       struct nfs_access_entry *cache = kmalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (cache == NULL)
                return;
        RB_CLEAR_NODE(&cache->rb_node);
-- 
1.7.9.5


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