3.6.11.9-rc1 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hannes Reinecke [ Upstream commit 6c182cd88d179cbbd06f4f8a8a19b6977940753f ] When multipath needs to retry an ioctl the reference to the current live table needs to be dropped. Otherwise a deadlock occurs when all paths are down: - dm_blk_ioctl takes a reference to the current table and spins in multipath_ioctl(). - A new table is being loaded, but upon resume the process hangs in dm_table_destroy() waiting for references to drop to zero. With this patch the reference to the old table is dropped prior to retry, thereby avoiding the deadlock. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 8 ++------ drivers/md/dm.c | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c index 034233e..4fc70c8 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -1561,7 +1561,6 @@ static int multipath_ioctl(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long flags; int r; -again: bdev = NULL; mode = 0; r = 0; @@ -1579,7 +1578,7 @@ again: } if ((pgpath && m->queue_io) || (!pgpath && m->queue_if_no_path)) - r = -EAGAIN; + r = -ENOTCONN; else if (!bdev) r = -EIO; @@ -1591,11 +1590,8 @@ again: if (!r && ti->len != i_size_read(bdev->bd_inode) >> SECTOR_SHIFT) r = scsi_verify_blk_ioctl(NULL, cmd); - if (r == -EAGAIN && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) { + if (r == -ENOTCONN && !fatal_signal_pending(current)) queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->process_queued_ios); - msleep(10); - goto again; - } return r ? : __blkdev_driver_ioctl(bdev, mode, cmd, arg); } diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 4256200..dd0a1a8 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -414,10 +414,12 @@ static int dm_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct mapped_device *md = bdev->bd_disk->private_data; - struct dm_table *map = dm_get_live_table(md); + struct dm_table *map; struct dm_target *tgt; int r = -ENOTTY; +retry: + map = dm_get_live_table(md); if (!map || !dm_table_get_size(map)) goto out; @@ -438,6 +440,11 @@ static int dm_blk_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, out: dm_table_put(map); + if (r == -ENOTCONN) { + msleep(10); + goto retry; + } + return r; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/