From: Bart Van Assche Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 13:57:26 +0000 (+0200) Subject: IB/srp: Fix deadlock between host removal and multipathd X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.17/fixes-against-rc2~62^2^11~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bcc05910359183b431da92713e98eed478edf83a;p=pandora-kernel.git IB/srp: Fix deadlock between host removal and multipathd If scsi_remove_host() is invoked after a SCSI device has been blocked, if the fast_io_fail_tmo or dev_loss_tmo work gets scheduled on the workqueue executing srp_remove_work() and if an I/O request is scheduled after the SCSI device had been blocked by e.g. multipathd then the following deadlock can occur: kworker/6:1 D ffff880831f3c460 0 195 2 0x00000000 Call Trace: [] schedule+0x29/0x70 [] schedule_timeout+0x10f/0x2a0 [] msleep+0x2f/0x40 [] __blk_drain_queue+0x4e/0x180 [] blk_cleanup_queue+0x225/0x230 [] __scsi_remove_device+0x62/0xe0 [scsi_mod] [] scsi_forget_host+0x6f/0x80 [scsi_mod] [] scsi_remove_host+0x7a/0x130 [scsi_mod] [] srp_remove_work+0x95/0x180 [ib_srp] [] process_one_work+0x1ea/0x6c0 [] worker_thread+0x11b/0x3a0 [] kthread+0xed/0x110 [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 multipathd D ffff880096acc460 0 5340 1 0x00000000 Call Trace: [] schedule+0x29/0x70 [] schedule_timeout+0x10f/0x2a0 [] io_schedule_timeout+0x9b/0xf0 [] wait_for_completion_io_timeout+0xdc/0x110 [] blk_execute_rq+0x9b/0x100 [] sg_io+0x1a5/0x450 [] scsi_cmd_ioctl+0x2a1/0x430 [] scsi_cmd_blk_ioctl+0x42/0x50 [] sd_ioctl+0xbe/0x140 [sd_mod] [] blkdev_ioctl+0x234/0x840 [] block_ioctl+0x41/0x50 [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x300/0x520 [] SyS_ioctl+0x41/0x80 [] tracesys+0xd0/0xd5 Fix this by scheduling removal work on another workqueue than the transport layer timers. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg Reviewed-by: David Dillow Cc: Sebastian Parschauer Cc: Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- Reading git-diff-tree failed