This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled f2fs: fix iostat lock protection to the 5.10-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-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 144f1cd40bf91fb3ac1d41806470756ce774f389 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:26:56 +0800 Subject: f2fs: fix iostat lock protection From: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 144f1cd40bf91fb3ac1d41806470756ce774f389 upstream. 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> Cc: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c @@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ out: 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; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/f2fs-fix-iostat-lock-protection.patch