Patch "tcmu: release blocks for partially setup cmds" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tcmu: release blocks for partially setup cmds

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tcmu-release-blocks-for-partially-setup-cmds.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Apr  9 10:16:32 CEST 2018
From: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:40:33 -0600
Subject: tcmu: release blocks for partially setup cmds

From: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>


[ Upstream commit 810b8153c4243d2012a6ec002ddd3bbc9a9ae8c2 ]

If we cannot setup a cmd because we run out of ring space
or global pages release the blocks before sleeping. This
prevents a deadlock where dev0 has waiting_blocks set and
needs N blocks, but dev1 to devX have each allocated N / X blocks
and also hit the global block limit so they went to sleep.

find_free_blocks is not able to take the sleeping dev's
blocks becaause their waiting_blocks is set and even
if it was not the block returned by find_last_bit could equal
dbi_max. The latter will probably never happen because
DATA_BLOCK_BITS is so high but in the next patches
DATA_BLOCK_BITS and TCMU_GLOBAL_MAX_BLOCKS will be settable so
it might be lower and could happen.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/target/target_core_user.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_user.c
@@ -805,6 +805,13 @@ tcmu_queue_cmd_ring(struct tcmu_cmd *tcm
 		int ret;
 		DEFINE_WAIT(__wait);
 
+		/*
+		 * Don't leave commands partially setup because the unmap
+		 * thread might need the blocks to make forward progress.
+		 */
+		tcmu_cmd_free_data(tcmu_cmd, tcmu_cmd->dbi_cur);
+		tcmu_cmd_reset_dbi_cur(tcmu_cmd);
+
 		prepare_to_wait(&udev->wait_cmdr, &__wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 
 		pr_debug("sleeping for ring space\n");


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mchristi@redhat.com are

queue-4.15/tcmu-release-blocks-for-partially-setup-cmds.patch