[ 09/57] bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Oct 03 2013 - 01:01:51 EST


3.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit a698e08c82dfb9771e0bac12c7337c706d729b6d upstream.

GFP_NOIO means we could be getting called recursively - mca_alloc() ->
mca_data_alloc() - definitely can't use mutex_lock(bucket_lock) then.
Whoops.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
@@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ static int bch_mca_shrink(struct shrinke
return mca_can_free(c) * c->btree_pages;

/* Return -1 if we can't do anything right now */
- if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)
+ if (sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO)
mutex_lock(&c->bucket_lock);
else if (!mutex_trylock(&c->bucket_lock))
return -1;


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