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Bart Van Assche 935a20d1be block: Remove queue freezing from several sysfs store callbacks
Freezing the request queue from inside sysfs store callbacks may cause a
deadlock in combination with the dm-multipath driver and the
queue_if_no_path option. Additionally, freezing the request queue slows
down system boot on systems where sysfs attributes are set synchronously.

Fix this by removing the blk_mq_freeze_queue() / blk_mq_unfreeze_queue()
calls from the store callbacks that do not strictly need these callbacks.
Add the __data_racy annotation to request_queue.rq_timeout to suppress
KCSAN data race reports about the rq_timeout reads.

This patch may cause a small delay in applying the new settings.

For all the attributes affected by this patch, I/O will complete
correctly whether the old or the new value of the attribute is used.

This patch affects the following sysfs attributes:
* io_poll_delay
* io_timeout
* nomerges
* read_ahead_kb
* rq_affinity

Here is an example of a deadlock triggered by running test srp/002
if this patch is not applied:

task:multipathd
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
 schedule+0xdd/0x270
 schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x30
 __mutex_lock+0xb89/0x1650
 mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30
 dm_table_set_restrictions+0x823/0xdf0
 __bind+0x166/0x590
 dm_swap_table+0x2a7/0x490
 do_resume+0x1b1/0x610
 dev_suspend+0x55/0x1a0
 ctl_ioctl+0x3a5/0x7e0
 dm_ctl_ioctl+0x12/0x20
 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x1a0
 x64_sys_call+0xe2b/0x17d0
 do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 </TASK>
task:(udev-worker)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __schedule+0x8c1/0x1bf0
 schedule+0xdd/0x270
 blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0xf2/0x140
 blk_mq_freeze_queue_nomemsave+0x23/0x30
 queue_ra_store+0x14e/0x290
 queue_attr_store+0x23e/0x2c0
 sysfs_kf_write+0xde/0x140
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3b2/0x630
 vfs_write+0x4fd/0x1390
 ksys_write+0xfd/0x230
 __x64_sys_write+0x76/0xc0
 x64_sys_call+0x276/0x17d0
 do_syscall_64+0x96/0x3a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
 </TASK>

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Cc: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: af28141498 ("block: freeze the queue in queue_attr_store")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2025-11-18 15:00:11 -07:00
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