linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block/floppy: fix contended case in floppy_queue

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Date:   Tue, 26 May 2020 15:25:02 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, Denis Efremov <efremov@...ux.com>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Libor Pechacek <lpechacek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block/floppy: fix contended case in floppy_queue_rq()

On 5/26/20 3:49 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> 
> Since the switch of floppy driver to blk-mq, the contended (fdc_busy) case 
> in floppy_queue_rq() is not handled correctly.
> 
> In case we reach floppy_queue_rq() with fdc_busy set (i.e. with the floppy 
> locked due to another request still being in-flight), we put the request 
> on the list of requests and return BLK_STS_OK to the block core, without 
> actually scheduling delayed work / doing further processing of the 
> request. This means that processing of this request is postponed until 
> another request comes and passess uncontended.
> 
> Which in some cases might actually never happen and we keep waiting 
> indefinitely. The simple testcase is
> 
> 	for i in `seq 1 2000`; do echo -en $i '\r'; blkid --info /dev/fd0 2> /dev/null; done
> 
> run in quemu. That reliably causes blkid eventually indefinitely hanging 
> in __floppy_read_block_0() waiting for completion, as the BIO callback 
> never happens, and no further IO is ever submitted on the (non-existent) 
> floppy device. This was observed reliably on qemu-emulated device.
> 
> Fix that by not queuing the request in the contended case, and return 
> BLK_STS_RESOURCE instead, so that blk core handles the request 
> rescheduling and let it pass properly non-contended later.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe