drbd: a few more GFP_KERNEL -> GFP_NOIO

This has not yet been observed, but conceivably, when using GFP_KERNEL
allocations from drbd_md_sync(), drbd_flush_after_epoch() or
receive_SyncParam(), we could trigger additional IO to our own device,
or an other device in a criss-cross setup, and end up in a local
deadlock, or potentially a distributed deadlock in a criss-cross setup
involving the peer blocked in a similar way waiting for us to make
progress.
Signed-off-by: NPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: NLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h

@@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@ static inline void drbd_md_flush(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
 	if (test_bit(MD_NO_FUA, &mdev->flags))
 		return;
 
-	r = blkdev_issue_flush(mdev->ldev->md_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+	r = blkdev_issue_flush(mdev->ldev->md_bdev, GFP_NOIO, NULL);
 	if (r) {
 		set_bit(MD_NO_FUA, &mdev->flags);
 		dev_err(DEV, "meta data flush failed with status %d, disabling md-flushes\n", r);

drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c

@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ struct fifo_buffer *fifo_alloc(int fifo_size)
 {
 	struct fifo_buffer *fb;
 
-	fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fifo_buffer) + sizeof(int) * fifo_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+	fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fifo_buffer) + sizeof(int) * fifo_size, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!fb)
 		return NULL;