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* block: blk-timeout.c possible mishandling of jiffies wrap?
@ 2010-03-07 17:47 Richard Kennedy
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From: Richard Kennedy @ 2010-03-07 17:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe; +Cc: lkml

Hi Jens,

In blk_rq_timed_out_timer() in blk-timeout.c the comment at line 129
says that the request deadline can never be zero as that gets fixed in
blk_add_timer.

However commit 7838c15b8dd18e78a523513749e5b54bda07b0cb
removed the line that bumped deadline if zero.

So now AFAICT there's nothing to prevent deadline being zero, and
blk_rq_timed_out_timer may not always do the right thing when jiffies is
about to wrap.

There was a next_set flag in blk_rq_timed_out_timer but that's been
removed too.

Do you have any preferred fix? A next_set flag or a deadline bump or
something else?

regards
Richard



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