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authorDerek Basehore <dbasehore@chromium.org>2012-12-18 12:27:18 -0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-12-19 20:36:05 +0100
commitaea24a8bbc81c8b404e4e293fb37aefaf388d35d (patch)
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block: remove deadlock in disk_clear_events
In disk_clear_events, do not put work on system_nrt_freezable_wq. Instead, put it on system_nrt_wq. There is a race between probing a usb and suspending the device. Since probing a usb calls disk_clear_events, which puts work on a frozen workqueue, probing cannot finish after the workqueue is frozen. However, suspending cannot finish until the usb probe is finished, so we get a deadlock, causing the system to reboot. The way to reproduce this bug is to wake up from suspend with a usb storage device plugged in, or plugging in a usb storage device right before suspend. The window of time is on the order of time it takes to probe the usb device. As long as the workqueues are frozen before the call to add_disk within sd_probe_async finishes, there will be a deadlock (which calls blkdev_get, sd_open, check_disk_change, then disk_clear_events). This is not difficult to reproduce after figuring out the timings. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up comment] Signed-off-by: Derek Basehore <dbasehore@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/genhd.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 9a289d7c84b..33a3b38aa4b 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1565,7 +1565,14 @@ unsigned int disk_clear_events(struct gendisk *disk, unsigned int mask)
/* uncondtionally schedule event check and wait for it to finish */
disk_block_events(disk);
- queue_delayed_work(system_freezable_wq, &ev->dwork, 0);
+ /*
+ * We need to put the work on system_nrt_wq here since there is a
+ * deadlock that happens while probing a usb device while suspending. If
+ * we put work on a freezable workqueue here, a usb probe will wait here
+ * until the workqueue is unfrozen during suspend. Since suspend waits
+ * on all probes to complete, we have a deadlock
+ */
+ queue_delayed_work(system_nrt_wq, &ev->dwork, 0);
flush_delayed_work(&ev->dwork);
__disk_unblock_events(disk, false);