On Tue, Jun 28 2016 at 5:07am -0400, Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Avoid that submitting an ioctl to a dm device while an underlying > block device is being removed triggers a deadlock. The call traces > reported by SysRq-w if the deadlock occurs are as follows: > > sysrq: SysRq : Show Blocked State > task PC stack pid father > systemd-udevd D ffff8803683f7878 0 6684 494 0x00000006 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff815acf97>] schedule+0x37/0x90 > [<ffffffff815b14bb>] schedule_timeout+0x18b/0x230 > [<ffffffff815ac61f>] io_schedule_timeout+0x9f/0x110 > [<ffffffff815ad786>] bit_wait_io+0x16/0x60 > [<ffffffff815ad579>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x49/0xa0 > [<ffffffff8111b3d6>] __lock_page+0xb6/0xc0 > [<ffffffff8112f6a4>] truncate_inode_pages_range+0x444/0x790 > [<ffffffff8112fa00>] truncate_inode_pages+0x10/0x20 > [<ffffffff811d6ef0>] kill_bdev+0x30/0x40 > [<ffffffff811d8201>] __blkdev_put+0x71/0x360 > [<ffffffff811d8539>] blkdev_put+0x49/0x170 > [<ffffffff811d8680>] blkdev_close+0x20/0x30 > [<ffffffff8119e338>] __fput+0xe8/0x1f0 > [<ffffffff8119e479>] ____fput+0x9/0x10 > [<ffffffff8107876c>] task_work_run+0x7c/0xb0 > [<ffffffff8105d047>] do_exit+0x3b7/0xb10 > [<ffffffff8105d82b>] do_group_exit+0x4b/0xc0 > [<ffffffff81068f25>] get_signal+0x1c5/0x7f0 > [<ffffffff8101a1a3>] do_signal+0x23/0x700 > [<ffffffff810020d3>] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x73/0xb0 > [<ffffffff81002580>] syscall_return_slowpath+0xb0/0xc0 > [<ffffffff815b2537>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xaa/0xac > systemd-udevd D ffff880062613cd8 0 6767 494 0x00000000 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff815acf97>] schedule+0x37/0x90 > [<ffffffff815b1487>] schedule_timeout+0x157/0x230 > [<ffffffff810c0d33>] msleep+0x33/0x40 > [<ffffffffa0341a5b>] dm_grab_bdev_for_ioctl+0x7b/0x150 [dm_mod] > [<ffffffffa0341e25>] dm_blk_ioctl+0x35/0x80 [dm_mod] > [<ffffffff812b36eb>] blkdev_ioctl+0x25b/0x980 > [<ffffffff811d79b8>] block_ioctl+0x38/0x40 > [<ffffffff811afd5e>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x8e/0x660 > [<ffffffff811b036c>] SyS_ioctl+0x3c/0x70 > [<ffffffff815b24a9>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1c/0xac > > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/md/dm.c | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c > index 1b2f962..f3564e1 100644 > --- a/drivers/md/dm.c > +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c > @@ -630,7 +630,8 @@ retry: > > out: > dm_put_live_table(md, srcu_idx); > - if (r == -ENOTCONN && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) { > + if (r == -ENOTCONN && !fatal_signal_pending(current) && > + !blk_queue_dying(bdev_get_queue(*bdev))) { > msleep(10); > goto retry; > } > -- > 2.8.4 Hi Bart, This patch doesn't make sense. In the context of dm-mpath.c:multipath_prepare_ioctl, *bdev is only valid if r == 0. But r == -ENOTCONN so how can *bdev be valid? Mike -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel