4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.de
[ Upstream commit 864449eea7c600596e305ffdc4a6a846414b222c ]
The firmware event workqueue should not be marked as WQ_MEM_RECLAIM as it's doesn't need to make forward progress under memory pressure. In the current state it will result in a deadlock if the device had been forcefully removed.
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com Cc: Suganath Prabu Subramani suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com Acked-by: Sreekanth Reddy Sreekanth.Reddy@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke hare@suse.com Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c @@ -8853,7 +8853,7 @@ _scsih_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const snprintf(ioc->firmware_event_name, sizeof(ioc->firmware_event_name), "fw_event_%s%d", ioc->driver_name, ioc->id); ioc->firmware_event_thread = alloc_ordered_workqueue( - ioc->firmware_event_name, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM); + ioc->firmware_event_name, 0); if (!ioc->firmware_event_thread) { pr_err(MPT3SAS_FMT "failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", ioc->name, __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__);