On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 11:13:13AM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > The deadlock in this patchset reproduces upstream. It is not possible to > update the kernel in the env in the original report. > > So IFF we assume that this does not reproduce in upstream (pending > proof), is there something that we can do with stable fixes? This will > probably go back to everything that is before 5.8... The direct_make_request removal should be pretty easily backportable. In old kernels without the streamlined normal path it might cause minor performance degradations, but the actual change should be trivial.
