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Vivek Goyal committed 51fecdd2555
virtiofs: Do not end request in submission context Submission context can hold some locks which end request code tries to hold again and deadlock can occur. For example, fc->bg_lock. If a background request is being submitted, it might hold fc->bg_lock and if we could not submit request (because device went away) and tried to end request, then deadlock happens. During testing, I also got a warning from deadlock detection code. So put requests on a list and end requests from a worker thread. I got following warning from deadlock detector. [ 603.137138] WARNING: possible recursive locking detected [ 603.137142] -------------------------------------------- [ 603.137144] blogbench/2036 is trying to acquire lock: [ 603.137149] 00000000f0f51107 (&(&fc->bg_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: fuse_request_end+0xdf/0x1c0 [fuse] [ 603.140701] [ 603.140701] but task is already holding lock: [ 603.140703] 00000000f0f51107 (&(&fc->bg_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: fuse_simple_background+0x92/0x1d0 [fuse] [ 603.140713] [ 603.140713] other info that might help us debug this: [ 603.140714] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 603.140714] [ 603.140715] CPU0 [ 603.140716] ---- [ 603.140716] lock(&(&fc->bg_lock)->rlock); [ 603.140718] lock(&(&fc->bg_lock)->rlock); [ 603.140719] [ 603.140719] *** DEADLOCK *** Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>