This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled aoe: avoid potential deadlock at set_capacity to the 6.7-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: aoe-avoid-potential-deadlock-at-set_capacity.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cece494c683d635cb71dd574be11234e5f12a0a2 Author: Maksim Kiselev <bigunclemax@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jan 24 10:24:36 2024 +0300 aoe: avoid potential deadlock at set_capacity [ Upstream commit e169bd4fb2b36c4b2bee63c35c740c85daeb2e86 ] Move set_capacity() outside of the section procected by (&d->lock). To avoid possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- [1] lock(&bdev->bd_size_lock); local_irq_disable(); [2] lock(&d->lock); [3] lock(&bdev->bd_size_lock); <Interrupt> [4] lock(&d->lock); *** DEADLOCK *** Where [1](&bdev->bd_size_lock) hold by zram_add()->set_capacity(). [2]lock(&d->lock) hold by aoeblk_gdalloc(). And aoeblk_gdalloc() is trying to acquire [3](&bdev->bd_size_lock) at set_capacity() call. In this situation an attempt to acquire [4]lock(&d->lock) from aoecmd_cfg_rsp() will lead to deadlock. So the simplest solution is breaking lock dependency [2](&d->lock) -> [3](&bdev->bd_size_lock) by moving set_capacity() outside. Signed-off-by: Maksim Kiselev <bigunclemax@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240124072436.3745720-2-bigunclemax@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c index cf6883756155a..37eff1c974515 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp) struct gendisk *gd; mempool_t *mp; struct blk_mq_tag_set *set; + sector_t ssize; ulong flags; int late = 0; int err; @@ -395,7 +396,7 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp) gd->minors = AOE_PARTITIONS; gd->fops = &aoe_bdops; gd->private_data = d; - set_capacity(gd, d->ssize); + ssize = d->ssize; snprintf(gd->disk_name, sizeof gd->disk_name, "etherd/e%ld.%d", d->aoemajor, d->aoeminor); @@ -404,6 +405,8 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&d->lock, flags); + set_capacity(gd, ssize); + err = device_add_disk(NULL, gd, aoe_attr_groups); if (err) goto out_disk_cleanup;