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    SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc · c5a4dd8b
    Chuck Lever authored
    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: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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