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sd: avoid deadlocks when running under multipath

PATCH New Hannes Reinecke 1 participant 1 message May 10, 2013 SCSI

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PATCH 1/1 sd: avoid deadlocks when running under multipath

When multipathed systems run into an all-paths-down scenario all devices might be dropped, too. This causes 'del_gendisk' to be called, which will unregister the kobj_map->probe() function for all disk device numbers.
When the device comes back the default ->probe() function is run which will call __request_module(), which will deadlock.
As 'del_gendisk' typically does _not_ trigger a module unload the default ->probe() function is pointless anyway. This patch implements a dummy ->probe() function, which will just return NULL if the disk is not registered. This will avoid the deadlock. Plus it'll speed up device scanning.

Signed-off-by Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
drivers/scsi/sd.c +25 -4
index 7992635..2ee0aa6 100644
@@ -489,6 +489,16 @@ static struct scsi_driver sd_template = {
 };
 
 /*
+ * Dummy kobj_map->probe function.
+ * The default ->probe function will call modprobe, which is
+ * pointless as this module is already loaded.
+ */
+static struct kobject *sd_default_probe(dev_t devt, int *partno, void *data)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
  * Device no to disk mapping:
  * 
  *       major         disc2     disc  p1

@@ -2961,8 +2971,10 @@ static int sd_probe(struct device *dev)
 static int sd_remove(struct device *dev)
 {
 	struct scsi_disk *sdkp;
+	dev_t devt;
 
 	sdkp = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	devt = disk_devt(sdkp->disk);
 	scsi_autopm_get_device(sdkp->device);
 
 	async_synchronize_full_domain(&scsi_sd_probe_domain);

@@ -2972,6 +2984,9 @@ static int sd_remove(struct device *dev)
 	del_gendisk(sdkp->disk);
 	sd_shutdown(dev);
 
+	blk_register_region(devt, SD_MINORS, NULL,
+			    sd_default_probe, NULL, NULL);
+
 	mutex_lock(&sd_ref_mutex);
 	dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
 	put_device(&sdkp->dev);

@@ -3115,9 +3130,13 @@ static int __init init_sd(void)
 
 	SCSI_LOG_HLQUEUE(3, printk("init_sd: sd driver entry point\n"));
 
-	for (i = 0; i < SD_MAJORS; i++)
-		if (register_blkdev(sd_major(i), "sd") == 0)
-			majors++;
+	for (i = 0; i < SD_MAJORS; i++) {
+		if (register_blkdev(sd_major(i), "sd") != 0)
+			continue;
+		majors++;
+		blk_register_region(sd_major(i), SD_MINORS, NULL,
+				    sd_default_probe, NULL, NULL);
+	}
 
 	if (!majors)
 		return -ENODEV;

@@ -3176,8 +3195,10 @@ static void __exit exit_sd(void)
 
 	class_unregister(&sd_disk_class);
 
-	for (i = 0; i < SD_MAJORS; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < SD_MAJORS; i++) {
+		blk_unregister_region(sd_major(i), SD_MINORS);
 		unregister_blkdev(sd_major(i), "sd");
+	}
 }
 
 module_init(init_sd);