linux-kernel - Re: blkdev_issue_discard() hangs forever if the underlying storage device is removed

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Message-ID: <CAO+b5-qGospnFZrubHGfBGk9U61xD6hQ4ZaYa6af-GuzTPquUw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:38:40 +0200
From:	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: blkdev_issue_discard() hangs forever if the underlying storage
 device is removed

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> A key fact here is that the block device to which the discard request
>> was issued is gone, so the discard request will never finish
>> successfully. Do all relevant error paths guarantee that
>> blkdev_issue_discard() will finish in a finite time ?
>
> The underlying block device driver is supposed to handle timing out
> of lost IOs and causcwinge them to be completed with an error.
> blkdev_issue_discard() is simply waiting for that error to be
> delivered.
>
> If the driver has not detected that an outstanding request has not
> completed then that is a driver bug, not a bug in
> blkdev_issue_discard(). IOWs, you should be asking the ib_srp people
> why the in flight bio was not timed out or errored out when the
> block device abort was run....

Sorry, but the above doesn't make sense. This issue has nothing to do
with the ib_srp implementation: blkdev_issue_discard() was invoked by
mkfs after ib_srp had removed the SCSI host associated with the block
device. So none of the code in ib_srp has been invoked while
processing this blkdev_issue_discard() call.

Bart.
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