From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39552 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032809AbeE1KTm (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 06:19:42 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Sreekanth Reddy , Suganath Prabu Subramani , Sreekanth Reddy , Hannes Reinecke , "Martin K. Petersen" , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.4 127/268] scsi: mpt3sas: Do not mark fw_event workqueue as WQ_MEM_RECLAIM Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 12:01:41 +0200 Message-Id: <20180528100216.500487004@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180528100202.045206534@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180528100202.045206534@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hannes Reinecke [ Upstream commit 864449eea7c600596e305ffdc4a6a846414b222c ] The firmware event workqueue should not be marked as WQ_MEM_RECLAIM as it's doesn't need to make forward progress under memory pressure. In the current state it will result in a deadlock if the device had been forcefully removed. Cc: Sreekanth Reddy Cc: Suganath Prabu Subramani Acked-by: Sreekanth Reddy Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c @@ -8637,7 +8637,7 @@ _scsih_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const snprintf(ioc->firmware_event_name, sizeof(ioc->firmware_event_name), "fw_event_%s%d", ioc->driver_name, ioc->id); ioc->firmware_event_thread = alloc_ordered_workqueue( - ioc->firmware_event_name, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM); + ioc->firmware_event_name, 0); if (!ioc->firmware_event_thread) { pr_err(MPT3SAS_FMT "failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", ioc->name, __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__);