linux/block
Tejun Heo a9dce2a3b4 block: don't use non-syncing event blocking in disk_check_events()
This patch is part of fix for triggering of WARN_ON_ONCE() in
disk_clear_events() reported in bug#34662.

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34662

disk_clear_events() blocks events, schedules and flushes the event
work.  It expects the work to have started execution on schedule and
finished on return from flush.  WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers if the event
work hasn't executed as expected.  This problem happens because
__disk_block_events() fails to guarantee that the event work item is
not in flight on return from the function in race-free manner.  The
problem is two-fold and this patch addresses one of them.

When __disk_block_events() is called with @sync == %false, it bumps
event block count, calls cancel_delayed_work() and return.  This makes
it impossible to guarantee that event polling is not in flight on
return from syncing __disk_block_events() - if the first blocker was
non-syncing, polling could still be in progress and later syncing ones
would assume that the first blocker already canceled it.

Making __disk_block_events() cancel_sync regardless of block count
isn't feasible either as it may race with forced event checking in
disk_clear_events().

As disk_check_events() is the only user of non-syncing
__disk_block_events(), updating it to directly cancel and schedule
event work is the easiest way to solve the issue.

Note that there's another bug in __disk_block_events() and this patch
doesn't fix the issue completely.  Later patch will fix the other bug.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-06-09 20:43:54 +02:00
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blk-cgroup.c cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks 2011-05-26 17:12:34 -07:00
blk-cgroup.h cfq-iosched: Make IO merge related stats per cpu 2011-05-23 10:02:19 +02:00
blk-core.c block: export blk_{get,put}_queue() 2011-05-27 07:45:45 +02:00
blk-exec.c block: Remove 'plug/unplug' comment in blk_execute_rq_nowait 2011-05-05 15:10:05 -06:00
blk-flush.c block: hold queue if flush is running for non-queueable flush drive 2011-05-06 11:36:25 -06:00
blk-integrity.c dm: improve block integrity support 2011-04-05 23:52:43 +02:00
blk-ioc.c block: Use hlist_entry() for io_context.cic_list.first 2011-06-02 13:05:02 +02:00
blk-iopoll.c tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place 2009-12-04 15:39:55 +01:00
blk-lib.c blkdev: Do not return -EOPNOTSUPP if discard is supported 2011-05-06 19:30:01 -06:00
blk-map.c block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov() 2010-11-29 10:04:50 +01:00
blk-merge.c block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush 2011-03-21 10:14:27 +01:00
blk-settings.c block: Fix discard topology stacking and reporting 2011-05-18 10:37:35 +02:00
blk-softirq.c generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT 2009-02-25 14:13:44 +01:00
blk-sysfs.c Merge commit 'v2.6.39' into for-2.6.40/core 2011-05-20 20:33:15 +02:00
blk-tag.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
blk-throttle.c blk-throttle: Make no throttling rule group processing lockless 2011-05-20 20:34:53 +02:00
blk-timeout.c block: ensure jiffies wrap is handled correctly in blk_rq_timed_out_timer 2010-04-21 17:42:08 +02:00
blk.h Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-2.6.40/core 2011-05-20 20:36:16 +02:00
bsg.c [SCSI] bsg: correct fault if queue object removed while dev_t open 2010-12-09 09:41:14 -06:00
cfq-iosched.c cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment 2011-06-06 05:56:49 +02:00
cfq.h blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used. 2011-03-12 16:54:00 +01:00
compat_ioctl.c BKL: remove extraneous #include <smp_lock.h> 2010-11-17 08:59:32 -08:00
deadline-iosched.c block: remove per-queue plugging 2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
elevator.c block: get rid of on-stack plugging debug checks 2011-05-20 20:52:16 +02:00
genhd.c block: don't use non-syncing event blocking in disk_check_events() 2011-06-09 20:43:54 +02:00
ioctl.c block: fix refcounting in BLKBSZSET 2011-02-24 08:54:21 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT 2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Kconfig.iosched blk-cgroup: config options re-arrangement 2010-04-26 19:27:56 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
noop-iosched.c block: remove per-queue plugging 2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: take care not to overflow when calculating total iov length 2010-11-10 14:40:42 +01:00