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async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers

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Synchronous requet_module() from an async worker can lead to deadlock
because module init path may invoke async_synchronize_full().  The
async worker waits for request_module() to complete and the module
loading waits for the async task to finish.  This bug happened in the
block layer because of default elevator auto-loading.

Block layer has been updated not to do default elevator auto-loading
and it has been decided to disallow synchronous request_module() from
async workers.

Trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() on synchronous request_module() from async
workers.

For more details, please refer to the following thread.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1420814

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
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Tejun Heo 2013-01-22 16:48:03 -08:00
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commit 0fdff3ec6d
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@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/async.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <trace/events/module.h>
@ -130,6 +131,14 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...)
#define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50 /* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
static int kmod_loop_msg;
/*
* We don't allow synchronous module loading from async. Module
* init may invoke async_synchronize_full() which will end up
* waiting for this task which already is waiting for the module
* loading to complete, leading to a deadlock.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(wait && current_is_async());
va_start(args, fmt);
ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args);
va_end(args);