Mikulas Patocka
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commit53770f0ec5upstream. If we need to perform synchronous I/O in dm_integrity_map_continue(), we must make sure that we are not in the map function - in order to avoid the deadlock due to bio queuing in generic_make_request. To avoid the deadlock, we offload the request to metadata_wq. However, metadata_wq also processes metadata updates for write requests. If there are too many requests that get offloaded to metadata_wq at the beginning of dm_integrity_map_continue, the workqueue metadata_wq becomes clogged and the system is incapable of processing any metadata updates. This causes a deadlock because all the requests that need to do metadata updates wait for metadata_wq to proceed and metadata_wq waits inside wait_and_add_new_range until some existing request releases its range lock (which doesn't happen because the range lock is released after metadata update). In order to fix the deadlock, we create a new workqueue offload_wq and offload requests to it - so that processing of offload_wq is independent from processing of metadata_wq. Fixes:7eada909bf("dm: add integrity target") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+ Reported-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Tested-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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