dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion
authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:24:26 +0000 (12:24 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 3 Dec 2012 19:38:00 +0000 (11:38 -0800)
commit7a7c7aafc83b95909f3912bdf880f217acd69e31
tree77fca89938847b79921bb79f17c056555f59d72c
parent1840c51ad1842d31d810a64425dc2b52492ba269
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm.c