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Mikulas Patocka committed ba0e6dd5e64
dm ioctl: set noio flag to avoid __vmalloc deadlock commit 1c0e883e86ece31880fac2f84b260545d66a39e0 upstream. Set noio flag while calling __vmalloc() because it doesn't fully respect gfp flags to avoid a possible deadlock (see commit 502624bdad3dba45dfaacaf36b7d83e39e74b2d2). This should be backported to stable kernels 3.8 and newer. The kernel 3.8 doesn't have memalloc_noio_save(), so we should set and restore process flag PF_MEMALLOC instead. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>