[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "rbd: use GFP_NOIO in rbd_obj_request_create()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    rbd: use GFP_NOIO in rbd_obj_request_create()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt15.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 257e02991d937936554e33b3cbab872fb836aed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:24:33 +0300
Subject: rbd: use GFP_NOIO in rbd_obj_request_create()

commit 5a60e87603c4c533492c515b7f62578189b03c9c upstream.

rbd_obj_request_create() is called on the main I/O path, so we need to
use GFP_NOIO to make sure allocation doesn't blow back on us.  Not all
callers need this, but I'm still hardcoding the flag inside rather than
making it a parameter because a) this is going to stable, and b) those
callers shouldn't really use rbd_obj_request_create() and will be fixed
in the future.

More memory allocation fixes will follow.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/rbd.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/rbd.c b/drivers/block/rbd.c
index f017d1964eb6..b3fdc1b7ea76 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rbd.c
@@ -1909,11 +1909,11 @@ static struct rbd_obj_request *rbd_obj_request_create(const char *object_name,
 	rbd_assert(obj_request_type_valid(type));

 	size = strlen(object_name) + 1;
-	name = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	name = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!name)
 		return NULL;

-	obj_request = kmem_cache_zalloc(rbd_obj_request_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+	obj_request = kmem_cache_zalloc(rbd_obj_request_cache, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!obj_request) {
 		kfree(name);
 		return NULL;