4.9.61-rt52-rc2 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
When some block device driver creates a bio and submits it to another
block device driver, the bio is added to current->bio_list (in order to
avoid unbounded recursion).
However, this queuing of bios can cause deadlocks, in order to avoid them,
device mapper registers a function flush_current_bio_list. This function
is called when device mapper driver blocks. It redirects bios queued on
current->bio_list to helper workqueues, so that these bios can proceed
even if the driver is blocked.
The problem with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL is that when the device mapper
driver blocks, it won't call flush_current_bio_list (because
tsk_is_pi_blocked returns true in sched_submit_work), so deadlocks in
block device stack can happen.
Note that we can't call blk_schedule_flush_plug if tsk_is_pi_blocked
returns true - that would cause
BUG_ON(rt_mutex_real_waiter(task->pi_blocked_on)) in
task_blocks_on_rt_mutex when flush_current_bio_list attempts to take a
spinlock.
So the proper fix is to call blk_schedule_flush_plug in rt_mutex_fastlock,
when fast acquire failed and when the task is about to block.
CC: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[bigeasy: The deadlock is not device-mapper specific, it can also occur
in plain EXT4]
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
index 78a6c4a223c1..b73cd7c87551 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/sched/deadline.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/ww_mutex.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include "rtmutex_common.h"
@@ -1968,6 +1969,15 @@ rt_mutex_fastlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
if (likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(lock, NULL, current)))
return 0;
+ /*
+ * If rt_mutex blocks, the function sched_submit_work will not call
+ * blk_schedule_flush_plug (because tsk_is_pi_blocked would be true).
+ * We must call blk_schedule_flush_plug here, if we don't call it,
+ * a deadlock in device mapper may happen.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(blk_needs_flush_plug(current)))
+ blk_schedule_flush_plug(current);
+
return slowfn(lock, state, NULL, RT_MUTEX_MIN_CHAINWALK, ww_ctx);
}
@@ -1985,6 +1995,9 @@ rt_mutex_timed_fastlock(struct rt_mutex *lock, int state,
likely(rt_mutex_cmpxchg_acquire(lock, NULL, current)))
return 0;
+ if (unlikely(blk_needs_flush_plug(current)))
+ blk_schedule_flush_plug(current);
+
return slowfn(lock, state, timeout, chwalk, ww_ctx);
}
--
2.13.2
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