When the watchdog detects a disk change, it calls cancel_activity(),
which in turn tries to cancel the fd_timer delayed work.
In the above scenario, fd_timer_fn is set to fd_watchdog(), meaning
it is trying to cancel its own work.
This results in a hang as cancel_delayed_work_sync() is waiting for the
watchdog (itself) to return, which never happens.
This can be reproduced relatively consistently by attempting to read a
broken floppy, and ejecting it while IO is being attempted and retried.
To resolve this, this patch calls cancel_delayed_work() instead, which
cancels the work without waiting for the watchdog to return and finish.
Before this regression was introduced, the code in this section used
del_timer(), and not del_timer_sync() to delete the watchdog timer.
Fixes: 070ad7e793dc ("floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq")
Signed-off-by: Tasos Sahanidis <tasos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/floppy.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index fef79ea52..85464d72d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(fd_timer, fd_timer_workfn);
static void cancel_activity(void)
{
do_floppy = NULL;
- cancel_delayed_work_sync(&fd_timer);
+ cancel_delayed_work(&fd_timer);
cancel_work_sync(&floppy_work);
}
--
2.25.1
