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Revision a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 authored by Jens Axboe on 06 November 2012, 11:24:26 UTC, committed by Jens Axboe on 23 November 2012, 13:32:54 UTC
Request based dm attempts to re-run the request queue off the
request completion path. If used with a driver that potentially does
end_io from its request_fn, we could deadlock trying to recurse
back into request dispatch. Fix this by punting the request queue
run to kblockd.

Tested to fix a quickly reproducible deadlock in such a scenario.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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History
Tip revision: a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 authored by Jens Axboe on 06 November 2012, 11:24:26 UTC
dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion
Tip revision: a8c32a5
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Kconfig -rw-r--r-- 603 bytes
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 118 bytes
ieee802154_dev.c -rw-r--r-- 6.6 KB
mac802154.h -rw-r--r-- 3.5 KB
mac_cmd.c -rw-r--r-- 2.2 KB
mib.c -rw-r--r-- 5.0 KB
monitor.c -rw-r--r-- 3.1 KB
rx.c -rw-r--r-- 3.0 KB
tx.c -rw-r--r-- 2.9 KB
wpan.c -rw-r--r-- 13.3 KB

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