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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-11-06 12:24:26 +0100
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2012-12-06 11:20:34 +0000
commitde268a9f92b3b2504e9f87db3b4dd609aafb255f (patch)
treee555b2b88a643616aedac9e1a63ab8be600eb89d
parent66a572596853a2180272ca6a017cc32e8a56527c (diff)
dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion
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 <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index 502dcf7565f4..895363049bef 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -755,8 +755,14 @@ static void rq_completed(struct mapped_device *md, int rw, int run_queue)
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