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Andrew Morton authored
The loop driver takes a copy of the data which it is writing. When this happens on the try_to_free_pages() path, loop can easily consume ALL memory and bio_copy() will fail to allocate a page. Loop forgets to check the bio_copy() return value and oopses. Fix this by dropping PF_MEMALLOC and throttling to the block writeout speed. The patch exports blk_congestion_wait() to modules for this. This is a needed export: several filesystems have a "try to allocate and yield if it failed" loop and blk_congestion_wait() is a more appropriate way of implementing the sleep in this situation.
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