[Drbd-dev] [patch 1/2] block, drbd: fix drbd_req_new() initialization

David Rientjes rientjes at google.com
Sun Mar 8 01:24:02 CET 2015


mempool_alloc() does not support __GFP_ZERO since elements may come from
memory that has already been released by mempool_free().

Remove __GFP_ZERO from mempool_alloc() in drbd_req_new() and properly
initialize it to 0.

Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev at lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ static struct drbd_request *drbd_req_new(struct drbd_device *device,
 {
 	struct drbd_request *req;
 
-	req = mempool_alloc(drbd_request_mempool, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_ZERO);
+	req = mempool_alloc(drbd_request_mempool, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!req)
 		return NULL;
+	memset(req, 0, sizeof(*req));
 
 	drbd_req_make_private_bio(req, bio_src);
 	req->rq_state    = bio_data_dir(bio_src) == WRITE ? RQ_WRITE : 0;


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