[PATCH 09/11] bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Tue Sep 24 2013 - 02:19:56 EST


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>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # >= v3.10
---
drivers/md/bcache/btree.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
index 8fad840..f42fc7e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/btree.c
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ static unsigned long bch_mca_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
return SHRINK_STOP;

/* 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;
--
1.8.4.rc3

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