All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>,
	Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Remove queue freezing from several sysfs store callbacks
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:04:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251114210409.3123309-3-bvanassche@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251114210409.3123309-1-bvanassche@acm.org>

Freezing the request queue from inside sysfs store callbacks may cause a
deadlock in combination with the dm-multipath driver and the
queue_if_no_path option. Additionally, freezing the request queue slows
down system boot on systems where sysfs attributes are set synchronously.

Fix this by removing the blk_mq_freeze_queue() / blk_mq_unfreeze_queue()
calls from the store callbacks that do not strictly need these callbacks.
Add the __data_racy annotation to request_queue.rq_timeout to suppress
KCSAN data race reports about the rq_timeout reads.

This patch may cause a small delay in applying the new settings.

For all the attributes affected by this patch, I/O will complete
correctly whether the old or the new value of the attribute is used.

This patch affects the following sysfs attributes:
* io_poll_delay
* io_timeout
* nomerges
* read_ahead_kb
* rq_affinity

Here is an example of a deadlock triggered by running test srp/002
if this patch is not applied:

task:multipathd
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
 schedule+0xdd/0x270
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x30
 __mutex_lock+0xb89/0x1650
 mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30
 dm_table_set_restrictions+0x823/0xdf0
 __bind+0x166/0x590
 dm_swap_table+0x2a7/0x490
 do_resume+0x1b1/0x610
 dev_suspend+0x55/0x1a0
 ctl_ioctl+0x3a5/0x7e0
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x1a0
 x64_sys_call+0xe2b/0x17d0
 do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 </TASK>
task:(udev-worker)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
 schedule+0xdd/0x270
 blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0xf2/0x140
 blk_mq_freeze_queue_nomemsave+0x23/0x30
 queue_ra_store+0x14e/0x290
 queue_attr_store+0x23e/0x2c0
 sysfs_kf_write+0xde/0x140
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b2/0x630
 vfs_write+0x4fd/0x1390
 ksys_write+0xfd/0x230
 __x64_sys_write+0x76/0xc0
 x64_sys_call+0x276/0x17d0
 do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 </TASK>

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: af2814149883 ("block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---
 block/blk-sysfs.c      | 26 ++++++++------------------
 include/linux/blkdev.h |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 76c47fe9b8d6..8684c57498cc 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -143,21 +143,22 @@ queue_ra_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
 {
 	unsigned long ra_kb;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	unsigned int memflags;
 	struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
 
 	ret = queue_var_store(&ra_kb, page, count);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 	/*
-	 * ->ra_pages is protected by ->limits_lock because it is usually
-	 * calculated from the queue limits by queue_limits_commit_update.
+	 * The ->ra_pages change below is protected by ->limits_lock because it
+	 * is usually calculated from the queue limits by
+	 * queue_limits_commit_update().
+	 *
+	 * bdi->ra_pages reads are not serialized against bdi->ra_pages writes.
+	 * Use WRITE_ONCE() to write bdi->ra_pages once.
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&q->limits_lock);
-	memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
-	disk->bdi->ra_pages = ra_kb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
+	WRITE_ONCE(disk->bdi->ra_pages, ra_kb >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10));
 	mutex_unlock(&q->limits_lock);
-	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -375,21 +376,18 @@ static ssize_t queue_nomerges_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
 				    size_t count)
 {
 	unsigned long nm;
-	unsigned int memflags;
 	struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
 	ssize_t ret = queue_var_store(&nm, page, count);
 
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 
-	memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
 	blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q);
 	blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q);
 	if (nm == 2)
 		blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOMERGES, q);
 	else if (nm)
 		blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES, q);
-	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -409,7 +407,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
 	unsigned long val;
-	unsigned int memflags;
 
 	ret = queue_var_store(&val, page, count);
 	if (ret < 0)
@@ -421,7 +418,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
 	 * are accessed individually using atomic test_bit operation. So we
 	 * don't grab any lock while updating these flags.
 	 */
-	memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
 	if (val == 2) {
 		blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, q);
 		blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, q);
@@ -432,7 +428,6 @@ queue_rq_affinity_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page, size_t count)
 		blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP, q);
 		blk_queue_flag_clear(QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE, q);
 	}
-	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
 #endif
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -446,11 +441,9 @@ static ssize_t queue_poll_delay_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
 static ssize_t queue_poll_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
 				size_t count)
 {
-	unsigned int memflags;
 	ssize_t ret = count;
 	struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
 
-	memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
 	if (!(q->limits.features & BLK_FEAT_POLL)) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
@@ -459,7 +452,6 @@ static ssize_t queue_poll_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
 	pr_info_ratelimited("writes to the poll attribute are ignored.\n");
 	pr_info_ratelimited("please use driver specific parameters instead.\n");
 out:
-	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -472,7 +464,7 @@ static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_show(struct gendisk *disk, char *page)
 static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
 				  size_t count)
 {
-	unsigned int val, memflags;
+	unsigned int val;
 	int err;
 	struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
 
@@ -480,9 +472,7 @@ static ssize_t queue_io_timeout_store(struct gendisk *disk, const char *page,
 	if (err || val == 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	memflags = blk_mq_freeze_queue(q);
 	blk_queue_rq_timeout(q, msecs_to_jiffies(val));
-	blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q, memflags);
 
 	return count;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 2fff8a80dbd2..cb4ba09959ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ struct request_queue {
 	 */
 	unsigned long		queue_flags;
 
-	unsigned int		rq_timeout;
+	unsigned int __data_racy rq_timeout;
 
 	unsigned int		queue_depth;
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-14 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-14 21:04 [PATCH v6 0/2] Fix a recently introduced deadlock Bart Van Assche
2025-11-14 21:04 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] fs: Add the __data_racy annotation to backing_dev_info.ra_pages Bart Van Assche
2025-11-18  6:55   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-11-14 21:04 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2025-11-17  9:01   ` [PATCH v6 2/2] block: Remove queue freezing from several sysfs store callbacks Nilay Shroff
2025-11-17 20:44     ` Bart Van Assche
2025-11-18  6:54       ` Nilay Shroff
2025-11-18  6:56   ` Nilay Shroff
2025-11-18 15:38 ` [PATCH v6 0/2] Fix a recently introduced deadlock Jens Axboe

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20251114210409.3123309-3-bvanassche@acm.org \
    --to=bvanassche@acm.org \
    --cc=axboe@kernel.dk \
    --cc=bmarzins@redhat.com \
    --cc=dlemoal@kernel.org \
    --cc=hare@suse.de \
    --cc=hch@lst.de \
    --cc=kch@nvidia.com \
    --cc=linux-block@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=ming.lei@redhat.com \
    --cc=mwilck@suse.com \
    --cc=nilay@linux.ibm.com \
    --cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.