From 344150999b7fc88502a65bbb147a47503eca2033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chao Yu Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:44:49 +0800 Subject: f2fs: fix to avoid potential deadlock Quoted from Jing Xia's report, there is a potential deadlock may happen between kworker and checkpoint as below: [T:writeback] [T:checkpoint] - wb_writeback - blk_start_plug bio contains NodeA was plugged in writeback threads - do_writepages -- sync write inodeB, inc wb_sync_req[DATA] - f2fs_write_data_pages - f2fs_write_single_data_page -- write last dirty page - f2fs_do_write_data_page - set_page_writeback -- clear page dirty flag and PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY tag in radix tree - f2fs_outplace_write_data - f2fs_update_data_blkaddr - f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback -- wait NodeA to writeback here - inode_dec_dirty_pages - writeback_sb_inodes - writeback_single_inode - do_writepages - f2fs_write_data_pages -- skip writepages due to wb_sync_req[DATA] - wbc->pages_skipped += get_dirty_pages() -- PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY is not set but get_dirty_pages() returns one - requeue_inode -- requeue inode to wb->b_dirty queue due to non-zero.pages_skipped - blk_finish_plug Let's try to avoid deadlock condition by forcing unplugging previous bio via blk_finish_plug(current->plug) once we'v skipped writeback in writepages() due to valid sbi->wb_sync_req[DATA/NODE]. Fixes: 687de7f1010c ("f2fs: avoid IO split due to mixed WB_SYNC_ALL and WB_SYNC_NONE") Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Niu Signed-off-by: Jing Xia Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim --- fs/f2fs/data.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/f2fs/data.c') diff --git a/fs/f2fs/data.c b/fs/f2fs/data.c index 6b5f389ba998..b09f401f8960 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/data.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c @@ -3169,8 +3169,12 @@ static int __f2fs_write_data_pages(struct address_space *mapping, /* to avoid spliting IOs due to mixed WB_SYNC_ALL and WB_SYNC_NONE */ if (wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_ALL) atomic_inc(&sbi->wb_sync_req[DATA]); - else if (atomic_read(&sbi->wb_sync_req[DATA])) + else if (atomic_read(&sbi->wb_sync_req[DATA])) { + /* to avoid potential deadlock */ + if (current->plug) + blk_finish_plug(current->plug); goto skip_write; + } if (__should_serialize_io(inode, wbc)) { mutex_lock(&sbi->writepages); -- cgit v1.2.3