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dm: avoid destroying table in dm_any_congested
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dm_any_congested() just checks for the DMF_BLOCK_IO and has no
code to make sure that suspend waits for dm_any_congested() to
complete.  This patch adds such a check.

Without it, a race can occur with dm_table_put() attempting to
destroying the table in the wrong thread, the one running
dm_any_congested() which is meant to be quick and return
immediately.

Two examples of problems:
1. Sleeping functions called from congested code, the caller
   of which holds a spin lock.
2. An ABBA deadlock between pdflush and multipathd. The two locks
   in contention are inode lock and kernel lock.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <[email protected]>
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chandra2 authored and kergon committed Nov 13, 2008
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24 changes: 16 additions & 8 deletions drivers/md/dm.c
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Expand Up @@ -937,16 +937,24 @@ static void dm_unplug_all(struct request_queue *q)

static int dm_any_congested(void *congested_data, int bdi_bits)
{
int r;
struct mapped_device *md = (struct mapped_device *) congested_data;
struct dm_table *map = dm_get_table(md);
int r = bdi_bits;
struct mapped_device *md = congested_data;
struct dm_table *map;

if (!map || test_bit(DMF_BLOCK_IO, &md->flags))
r = bdi_bits;
else
r = dm_table_any_congested(map, bdi_bits);
atomic_inc(&md->pending);

if (!test_bit(DMF_BLOCK_IO, &md->flags)) {
map = dm_get_table(md);
if (map) {
r = dm_table_any_congested(map, bdi_bits);
dm_table_put(map);
}
}

if (!atomic_dec_return(&md->pending))
/* nudge anyone waiting on suspend queue */
wake_up(&md->wait);

dm_table_put(map);
return r;
}

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