This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dm verity: avoid deadlock
to the 3.8-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:
dm-verity-avoid-deadlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3b6b7813b198b578aa7e04e4047ddb8225c37b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:21:25 +0000
Subject: dm verity: avoid deadlock
From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3b6b7813b198b578aa7e04e4047ddb8225c37b7f upstream.
A deadlock was found in the prefetch code in the dm verity map
function. This patch fixes this by transferring the prefetch
to a worker thread and skipping it completely if kmalloc fails.
If generic_make_request is called recursively, it queues the I/O
request on the current->bio_list without making the I/O request
and returns. The routine making the recursive call cannot wait
for the I/O to complete.
The deadlock occurs when one thread grabs the bufio_client
mutex and waits for an I/O to complete but the I/O is queued
on another thread's current->bio_list and is waiting to get
the mutex held by the first thread.
The fix recognises that prefetching is not essential. If memory
can be allocated, it queues the prefetch request to the worker thread,
but if not, it does nothing.
Signed-off-by: Paul Taysom <taysom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-bufio.c | 2 ++
drivers/md/dm-verity.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -1026,6 +1026,8 @@ void dm_bufio_prefetch(struct dm_bufio_c
{
struct blk_plug plug;
+ BUG_ON(dm_bufio_in_request());
+
blk_start_plug(&plug);
dm_bufio_lock(c);
--- a/drivers/md/dm-verity.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity.c
@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ struct dm_verity_io {
*/
};
+struct dm_verity_prefetch_work {
+ struct work_struct work;
+ struct dm_verity *v;
+ sector_t block;
+ unsigned n_blocks;
+};
+
static struct shash_desc *io_hash_desc(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io)
{
return (struct shash_desc *)(io + 1);
@@ -424,15 +431,18 @@ static void verity_end_io(struct bio *bi
* The root buffer is not prefetched, it is assumed that it will be cached
* all the time.
*/
-static void verity_prefetch_io(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io)
+static void verity_prefetch_io(struct work_struct *work)
{
+ struct dm_verity_prefetch_work *pw =
+ container_of(work, struct dm_verity_prefetch_work, work);
+ struct dm_verity *v = pw->v;
int i;
for (i = v->levels - 2; i >= 0; i--) {
sector_t hash_block_start;
sector_t hash_block_end;
- verity_hash_at_level(v, io->block, i, &hash_block_start, NULL);
- verity_hash_at_level(v, io->block + io->n_blocks - 1, i, &hash_block_end, NULL);
+ verity_hash_at_level(v, pw->block, i, &hash_block_start, NULL);
+ verity_hash_at_level(v, pw->block + pw->n_blocks - 1, i, &hash_block_end, NULL);
if (!i) {
unsigned cluster = ACCESS_ONCE(dm_verity_prefetch_cluster);
@@ -452,6 +462,25 @@ no_prefetch_cluster:
dm_bufio_prefetch(v->bufio, hash_block_start,
hash_block_end - hash_block_start + 1);
}
+
+ kfree(pw);
+}
+
+static void verity_submit_prefetch(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io)
+{
+ struct dm_verity_prefetch_work *pw;
+
+ pw = kmalloc(sizeof(struct dm_verity_prefetch_work),
+ GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | __GFP_NOWARN);
+
+ if (!pw)
+ return;
+
+ INIT_WORK(&pw->work, verity_prefetch_io);
+ pw->v = v;
+ pw->block = io->block;
+ pw->n_blocks = io->n_blocks;
+ queue_work(v->verify_wq, &pw->work);
}
/*
@@ -498,7 +527,7 @@ static int verity_map(struct dm_target *
memcpy(io->io_vec, bio_iovec(bio),
io->io_vec_size * sizeof(struct bio_vec));
- verity_prefetch_io(v, io);
+ verity_submit_prefetch(v, io);
generic_make_request(bio);
@@ -858,7 +887,7 @@ bad:
static struct target_type verity_target = {
.name = "verity",
- .version = {1, 1, 1},
+ .version = {1, 2, 0},
.module = THIS_MODULE,
.ctr = verity_ctr,
.dtr = verity_dtr,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/dm-verity-avoid-deadlock.patch
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