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Commit a8c32a5c authored by Jens Axboe's avatar Jens Axboe
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dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion



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: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent eac7cc52
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