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Tejun Heo committed aaf7c680682
block: fix elvpriv allocation failure handling Request allocation is mempool backed to guarantee forward progress under memory pressure; unfortunately, this property got broken while adding elvpriv data. Failures during elvpriv allocation, including ioc and icq creation failures, currently make get_request() fail as whole. There's no forward progress guarantee for these allocations - they may fail indefinitely under memory pressure stalling IO and deadlocking the system. This patch updates get_request() such that elvpriv allocation failure doesn't make the whole function fail. If elvpriv allocation fails, the allocation is degraded into !ELVPRIV. This will force the request to ELEVATOR_INSERT_BACK disturbing scheduling but elvpriv alloc failures should be rare (nothing is per-request) and anything is better than deadlocking. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>