This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled blk-flush: fix rq->flush.seq for post-flush requests to the 6.5-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: blk-flush-fix-rq-flush.seq-for-post-flush-requests.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8bdf3af3a70916bb66ad64a98df585c113b715a6 Author: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jul 17 12:00:56 2023 +0800 blk-flush: fix rq->flush.seq for post-flush requests [ Upstream commit 28b241237470981a96fbd82077c8044466b61e5f ] If the policy == (REQ_FSEQ_DATA | REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH), it means that the data sequence and post-flush sequence need to be done for this request. The rq->flush.seq should record what sequences have been done (or don't need to be done). So in this case, pre-flush doesn't need to be done, we should init rq->flush.seq to REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH not REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH. Fixes: 615939a2ae73 ("blk-mq: defer to the normal submission path for post-flush requests") Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230717040058.3993930-3-chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c index 8220517c2d67d..fdc489e0ea162 100644 --- a/block/blk-flush.c +++ b/block/blk-flush.c @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ bool blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq) * the post flush, and then just pass the command on. */ blk_rq_init_flush(rq); - rq->flush.seq |= REQ_FSEQ_POSTFLUSH; + rq->flush.seq |= REQ_FSEQ_PREFLUSH; spin_lock_irq(&fq->mq_flush_lock); list_move_tail(&rq->flush.list, &fq->flush_data_in_flight); spin_unlock_irq(&fq->mq_flush_lock);