Freezing the request queue from inside sysfs store callbacks may cause a deadlock in combination with the dm-multipath driver and the queue_if_no_path option. Additionally, freezing the request queue slows down system boot on systems where sysfs attributes are set synchronously.
Fix this by removing the blk_mq_freeze_queue() / blk_mq_unfreeze_queue() calls from the store callbacks that do not strictly need these callbacks. This patch may cause a small delay in applying the new settings.
This patch affects the following sysfs attributes: * io_poll_delay * io_timeout * nomerges * read_ahead_kb * rq_affinity
Here is an example of a deadlock triggered by running test srp/002:
task:multipathd Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0 schedule+0xdd/0x270 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x30 __mutex_lock+0xb89/0x1650 mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30 dm_table_set_restrictions+0x823/0xdf0 __bind+0x166/0x590 dm_swap_table+0x2a7/0x490 do_resume+0x1b1/0x610 dev_suspend+0x55/0x1a0 ctl_ioctl+0x3a5/0x7e0 dm_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x1a0 x64_sys_call+0xe2b/0x17d0 do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 </TASK> task:(udev-worker) Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0 schedule+0xdd/0x270 blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0xf2/0x140 blk_mq_freeze_queue_nomemsave+0x23/0x30 queue_ra_store+0x14e/0x290 queue_attr_store+0x23e/0x2c0 sysfs_kf_write+0xde/0x140 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b2/0x630 vfs_write+0x4fd/0x1390 ksys_write+0xfd/0x230 __x64_sys_write+0x76/0xc0 x64_sys_call+0x276/0x17d0 do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 </TASK>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Cc: Nilay Shroff nilay@linux.ibm.com Cc: Martin Wilck mwilck@suse.com Cc: Benjamin Marzinski bmarzins@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: af2814149883 ("block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche bvanassche@acm.org ---
Changes compared to v2: - Dropped the controversial patch "block: Restrict the duration of sysfs attribute changes".
Changes compared to v1: - Added patch "block: Restrict the duration of sysfs attribute changes". - Remove queue freezing from more sysfs callbacks.
block/blk-sysfs.c | 16 +--------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c index 76c47fe9b8d6..c698d83cbd29 100644 --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c @@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ queue_ra_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) { unsigned long ra_kb; ssize_t ret; - unsigned int memflags; struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
ret = queue_var_store(&ra_kb, page, count); @@ -154,10 +153,8 @@ queue_ra_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) * calculated from the queue limits by queue_limits_commit_update. */ mutex_lock(&q->limits_lock); - memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q); disk->bdi->ra_pages = ra_kb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10); mutex_unlock(&q->limits_lock); - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return ret; } @@ -375,21 +372,18 @@ static ssize_t queue_nomerges_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) { unsigned long nm; - unsigned int memflags; struct request_queue *q = disk->queue; ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&nm, page, count);
if (ret < 0) return ret;
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q); blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q); blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q); if (nm == 2) blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q); else if (nm) blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q); - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return ret; } @@ -409,7 +403,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP struct request_queue *q = disk->queue; unsigned long val; - unsigned int memflags;
ret = queue_var_store(&val, page, count); if (ret < 0) @@ -421,7 +414,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) * are accessed individually using atomic test_bit operation. So we * don't grab any lock while updating these flags. */ - memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q); if (val == 2) { blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, q); blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, q); @@ -432,7 +424,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, q); blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, q); } - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags); #endif return ret; } @@ -446,11 +437,9 @@ static ssize_t queue_poll_delay_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, static ssize_t queue_poll_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) { - unsigned int memflags; ssize_t ret = count; struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q); if (!(q->limits.features & BLK_FEAT_POLL)) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; @@ -459,7 +448,6 @@ static ssize_t queue_poll_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, pr_info_ratelimited("writes to the poll attribute are ignored.\n"); pr_info_ratelimited("please use driver specific parameters instead.\n"); out: - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags); return ret; }
@@ -472,7 +460,7 @@ static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_show(struct gendisk *disk, char *page) static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count) { - unsigned int val, memflags; + unsigned int val; int err; struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
@@ -480,9 +468,7 @@ static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, if (err || val == 0) return -EINVAL;
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q); blk_queue_rq_timeout(q, msecs_to_jiffies(val)); - blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return count; }