This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: fix iostat lock protection to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: f2fs-fix-iostat-lock-protection.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c880573479cc3be14e9271bc621492179d7fc96e Author: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 31 17:26:56 2023 +0800 f2fs: fix iostat lock protection [ Upstream commit 144f1cd40bf91fb3ac1d41806470756ce774f389 ] Made iostat lock irq safe to avoid potentinal deadlock. Deadlock scenario: f2fs_attr_store -> f2fs_sbi_store -> _sbi_store -> spin_lock(sbi->iostat_lock) <interrupt request> -> scsi_end_request -> bio_endio -> f2fs_dio_read_end_io -> f2fs_update_iostat -> spin_lock_irqsave(sbi->iostat_lock) ===> Dead lock here Fixes: 61803e984307 ("f2fs: fix iostat related lock protection") Fixes: a1e09b03e6f5 ("f2fs: use iomap for direct I/O") Signed-off-by: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c index df27afd71ef48..3d68bfa75cf2a 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c @@ -550,9 +550,9 @@ static ssize_t __sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a, if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "iostat_period_ms")) { if (t < MIN_IOSTAT_PERIOD_MS || t > MAX_IOSTAT_PERIOD_MS) return -EINVAL; - spin_lock(&sbi->iostat_lock); + spin_lock_irq(&sbi->iostat_lock); sbi->iostat_period_ms = (unsigned int)t; - spin_unlock(&sbi->iostat_lock); + spin_unlock_irq(&sbi->iostat_lock); return count; } #endif