Deadlock might be caused by allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL in
runtime_resume callback of network devices in iSCSI situation, so
mark network devices and its ancestor as 'memalloc_noio_resume'
with the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio().

Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Cc: David Decotigny <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
---
 net/core/net-sysfs.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index bcf02f6..9aba5be 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/export.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 #include <net/wext.h>
 
 #include "net-sysfs.h"
@@ -1386,6 +1387,8 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device * net)
 
        remove_queue_kobjects(net);
 
+       pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, false);
+
        device_del(dev);
 }
 
@@ -1411,6 +1414,8 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *net)
        *groups++ = &netstat_group;
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
+       pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, true);
+
        error = device_add(dev);
        if (error)
                return error;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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