From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 657f1975e9d9c880fa13030e88ba6cc84964f1db ] The deadlock combines 4 flows in parallel: - ns scanning (triggered from reconnect) - request timeout - ANA update (triggered from reconnect) - I/O coming into the mpath device (1) ns scanning triggers disk revalidation -> update disk info -> freeze queue -> but blocked, due to (2) (2) timeout handler reference the g_usage_counter - > but blocks in the transport .timeout() handler, due to (3) (3) the transport timeout handler (indirectly) calls nvme_stop_queue() -> which takes the (down_read) namespaces_rwsem - > but blocks, due to (4) (4) ANA update takes the (down_write) namespaces_rwsem -> calls nvme_mpath_set_live() -> which synchronize the ns_head srcu (see commit 504db087aacc) -> but blocks, due to (5) (5) I/O came into nvme_mpath_make_request -> took srcu_read_lock -> direct_make_request > blk_queue_enter -> but blocked, due to (1) ==> the request queue is under freeze -> deadlock. The fix is making ANA update take a read lock as the namespaces list is not manipulated, it is just the ns and ns->head that are being updated (which is protected with the ns->head lock). Fixes: 0d0b660f214dc ("nvme: add ANA support") Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c index a11900cf3a365..906dc0faa48ec 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c @@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ static int nvme_update_ana_state(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, if (!nr_nsids) return 0; - down_write(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem); + down_read(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem); list_for_each_entry(ns, &ctrl->namespaces, list) { unsigned nsid = le32_to_cpu(desc->nsids[n]); @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ static int nvme_update_ana_state(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, if (++n == nr_nsids) break; } - up_write(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem); + up_read(&ctrl->namespaces_rwsem); return 0; } -- 2.20.1