3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
commit a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 upstream.
Request based dm attempts to re-run the request queue off the
request completion path. If used with a driver that potentially does
end_io from its request_fn, we could deadlock trying to recurse
back into request dispatch. Fix this by punting the request queue
run to kblockd.
Tested to fix a quickly reproducible deadlock in such a scenario.
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <a...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/md/dm.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -754,8 +754,14 @@ static void rq_completed(struct mapped_d
if (!md_in_flight(md))
wake_up(&md->wait);
+ /*
+ * Run this off this callpath, as drivers could invoke end_io while
+ * inside their request_fn (and holding the queue lock). Calling
+ * back into ->request_fn() could deadlock attempting to grab the
+ * queue lock again.
+ */
if (run_queue)
- blk_run_queue(md->queue);
+ blk_run_queue_async(md->queue);
/*
* dm_put() must be at the end of this function. See the comment above
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