4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> commit 9c72a18e46ebe0f09484cce8ebf847abdab58498 upstream. In raid5, there are scenarios where some ios are deferred to a later time, and some IO need a flush to complete. To make sure we make progress with these IOs, we need to call the following functions: flush_deferred_bios(conf); r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log); Both of these functions are called in raid5d(), but missing in raid5_do_work(). As a result, these functions are not called when multi-threading (group_thread_cnt > 0) is enabled. This patch adds calls to these function to raid5_do_work(). Note for stable branches: r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log) is need for 4.4+ flush_deferred_bios(conf) is only needed for 4.11+ Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -6235,6 +6235,10 @@ static void raid5_do_work(struct work_st spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); + flush_deferred_bios(conf); + + r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log); + async_tx_issue_pending_all(); blk_finish_plug(&plug);