Freezing the request queue from inside sysfs store callbacks may cause a
deadlock in combination with the dm-multipath driver and the
queue_if_no_path option. Additionally, freezing the request queue slows
down system boot on systems where sysfs attributes are set synchronously.
Fix this by removing the blk_mq_freeze_queue() / blk_mq_unfreeze_queue()
calls from the store callbacks that do not strictly need these callbacks.
Add the __data_racy annotation to request_queue.rq_timeout to suppress
KCSAN data race reports about the rq_timeout reads.
This patch may cause a small delay in applying the new settings.
For all the attributes affected by this patch, I/O will complete
correctly whether the old or the new value of the attribute is used.
This patch affects the following sysfs attributes:
* io_poll_delay
* io_timeout
* nomerges
* read_ahead_kb
* rq_affinity
Here is an example of a deadlock triggered by running test srp/002
if this patch is not applied:
task:multipathd
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
schedule+0xdd/0x270
schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x30
__mutex_lock+0xb89/0x1650
mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30
dm_table_set_restrictions+0x823/0xdf0
__bind+0x166/0x590
dm_swap_table+0x2a7/0x490
do_resume+0x1b1/0x610
dev_suspend+0x55/0x1a0
ctl_ioctl+0x3a5/0x7e0
dm_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x1a0
x64_sys_call+0xe2b/0x17d0
do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
task:(udev-worker)
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
schedule+0xdd/0x270
blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0xf2/0x140
blk_mq_freeze_queue_nomemsave+0x23/0x30
queue_ra_store+0x14e/0x290
queue_attr_store+0x23e/0x2c0
sysfs_kf_write+0xde/0x140
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b2/0x630
vfs_write+0x4fd/0x1390
ksys_write+0xfd/0x230
__x64_sys_write+0x76/0xc0
x64_sys_call+0x276/0x17d0
do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Ming Lei
Cc: Nilay Shroff
Cc: Martin Wilck
Cc: Benjamin Marzinski
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: af2814149883 ("block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche
---
block/blk-sysfs.c | 26 ++++++++------------------
include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 76c47fe9b8d6..8684c57498cc 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -143,21 +143,22 @@ queue_ra_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
{
unsigned long ra_kb;
ssize_t ret;
- unsigned int memflags;
struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
ret = queue_var_store(&ra_kb, page, count);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
/*
- * ->ra_pages is protected by ->limits_lock because it is usually
- * calculated from the queue limits by queue_limits_commit_update.
+ * The ->ra_pages change below is protected by ->limits_lock because it
+ * is usually calculated from the queue limits by
+ * queue_limits_commit_update().
+ *
+ * bdi->ra_pages reads are not serialized against bdi->ra_pages writes.
+ * Use WRITE_ONCE() to write bdi->ra_pages once.
*/
mutex_lock(&q->limits_lock);
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
- disk->bdi->ra_pages = ra_kb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+ WRITE_ONCE(disk->bdi->ra_pages, ra_kb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
mutex_unlock(&q->limits_lock);
- blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return ret;
}
@@ -375,21 +376,18 @@ static ssize_t queue_nomerges_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
size_t count)
{
unsigned long nm;
- unsigned int memflags;
struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&nm, page, count);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q);
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q);
if (nm == 2)
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q);
else if (nm)
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q);
- blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return ret;
}
@@ -409,7 +407,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
unsigned long val;
- unsigned int memflags;
ret = queue_var_store(&val, page, count);
if (ret < 0)
@@ -421,7 +418,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
* are accessed individually using atomic test_bit operation. So we
* don't grab any lock while updating these flags.
*/
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
if (val == 2) {
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, q);
blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, q);
@@ -432,7 +428,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, q);
blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, q);
}
- blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
#endif
return ret;
}
@@ -446,11 +441,9 @@ static ssize_t queue_poll_delay_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
static ssize_t queue_poll_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
size_t count)
{
- unsigned int memflags;
ssize_t ret = count;
struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
if (!(q->limits.features & BLK_FEAT_POLL)) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
@@ -459,7 +452,6 @@ static ssize_t queue_poll_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
pr_info_ratelimited("writes to the poll attribute are ignored.\n");
pr_info_ratelimited("please use driver specific parameters instead.\n");
out:
- blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return ret;
}
@@ -472,7 +464,7 @@ static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_show(struct gendisk *disk, char *page)
static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
size_t count)
{
- unsigned int val, memflags;
+ unsigned int val;
int err;
struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
@@ -480,9 +472,7 @@ static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
if (err || val == 0)
return -EINVAL;
- memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
blk_queue_rq_timeout(q, msecs_to_jiffies(val));
- blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
return count;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 2fff8a80dbd2..cb4ba09959ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ struct request_queue {
*/
unsigned long queue_flags;
- unsigned int rq_timeout;
+ unsigned int __data_racy rq_timeout;
unsigned int queue_depth;