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    blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops · 5acb3cc2
    Waiman Long authored
    The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario:
    
           CPU0                    CPU1
           ----                    ----
      lock(s_active#228);
                                   lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1);
                                   lock(s_active#228);
      lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
    
     *** DEADLOCK ***
    
    The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a
    partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing
    tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that
    partition.
    
    The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count)
    on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require
    a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is
    treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code.
    
    The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the
    ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device
    file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being
    removed.
    
    Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new
    blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect
    access to the blk_trace structure.
    Suggested-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    
    Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how
    the code used to work.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
    5acb3cc2
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