From: Waiman Long Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:12:20 +0000 (-0600) Subject: blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=699350953b69f487bd920accab21fabea79b7cf0;p=pandora-kernel.git blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops commit 5acb3cc2c2e9d3020a4fee43763c6463767f1572 upstream. The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1); lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that partition. The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count) on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code. The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being removed. Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect access to the blk_trace structure. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how the code used to work. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed