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Damien Le Moal 734e1a8603 block: Prevent deadlocks when switching elevators
Commit af28141498 ("block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store")
changed queue_attr_store() to always freeze a sysfs attribute queue
before calling the attribute store() method, to ensure that no IOs are
in-flight when an attribute value is being updated.

However, this change created a potential deadlock situation for the
scheduler queue attribute as changing the queue elevator with
elv_iosched_store() can result in a call to request_module() if the user
requested module is not already registered. If the file of the requested
module is stored on the block device of the frozen queue, a deadlock
will happen as the read operations triggered by request_module() will
wait for the queue freeze to end.

Solve this issue by introducing the load_module method in struct
queue_sysfs_entry, and to calling this method function in
queue_attr_store() before freezing the attribute queue.
The macro definition QUEUE_RW_LOAD_MODULE_ENTRY() is added to define a
queue sysfs attribute that needs loading a module.

The definition of the scheduler atrribute is changed to using
QUEUE_RW_LOAD_MODULE_ENTRY(), with the function
elv_iosched_load_module() defined as the load_module method.
elv_iosched_store() can then be simplified to remove the call to
request_module().

Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jiri Jaburek <jjaburek@redhat.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219166
Fixes: af28141498 ("block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240908000704.414538-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2024-09-10 13:43:42 -06:00
arch Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-07-22 13:52:05 -07:00
block block: Prevent deadlocks when switching elevators 2024-09-10 13:43:42 -06:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - generate power-of-2 lengths more often 2024-07-13 11:50:28 +12:00
Documentation Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-07-22 13:52:05 -07:00
drivers nvme fixes for Linux 6.11 2024-09-05 08:45:54 -06:00
fs bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc1 2024-07-22 10:59:08 -07:00
include block: Drop NULL check in bdev_write_zeroes_sectors() 2024-08-19 09:48:59 -06:00
init - 875fa64577da ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix race with speculative PFN 2024-07-21 17:15:46 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: fix error pbuf checking 2024-07-20 11:04:57 -06:00
ipc slab updates for 6.11 2024-07-18 15:08:12 -07:00
kernel Switch ARM/ARM64 over to the modern per device MSI domains: 2024-07-22 14:02:19 -07:00
lib for-6.11/block-20240722 2024-07-22 11:32:05 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm - 875fa64577da ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix race with speculative PFN 2024-07-21 17:15:46 -07:00
net - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation", 2024-07-21 17:56:22 -07:00
rust slab updates for 6.11 2024-07-18 15:08:12 -07:00
samples - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation", 2024-07-21 17:56:22 -07:00
scripts - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation", 2024-07-21 17:56:22 -07:00
security Landlock updates for v6.11-rc1 2024-07-20 11:41:52 -07:00
sound Char/Misc and other driver changes for 6.11-rc1 2024-07-19 15:55:08 -07:00
tools - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation", 2024-07-21 17:56:22 -07:00
usr kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
virt KVM generic changes for 6.11 2024-07-16 09:51:36 -04:00
.clang-format Docs: Move clang-format from process/ to dev-tools/ 2024-06-26 16:36:00 -06:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap soc: dt updates for 6.11 2024-07-16 11:43:51 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS tracing: Update of MAINTAINERS and CREDITS file 2024-07-18 14:08:42 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-07-22 13:52:05 -07:00
Makefile asm-generic updates for 6.11 2024-07-16 12:09:03 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.