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Leaving PF_MEMALLOC set when exiting a kthread causes it to remain set during do_exit(). That can confuse things. For example, if BSD process accounting is enabled and the accounting file has FS_SYNC_FL set and is located on an ext4 filesystem without a journal, then do_exit() can end up calling ext4_write_inode(). That triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC) there, as it assumes (appropriately) that inodes aren't written when allocating memory. This was originally reported for another kernel thread, xfsaild() [1]. cifs_demultiplex_thread() also exits with PF_MEMALLOC set, so it's potentially subject to this same class of issue -- though I haven't been able to reproduce the WARN_ON_ONCE() via CIFS, since unlike xfsaild(), cifs_demultiplex_thread() is sent SIGKILL before exiting, and that interrupts the write to the BSD process accounting file. Either way, leaving PF_MEMALLOC set is potentially problematic. Let's clean this up by properly saving and restoring PF_MEMALLOC. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/0000000000000e7156059f751d7b@google.com Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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