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Commit fb48febc authored by Tasos Sahanidis's avatar Tasos Sahanidis Committed by Jens Axboe
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floppy: Fix hang in watchdog when disk is ejected

When the watchdog detects a disk change, it calls cancel_activity(),
which in turn tries to cancel the fd_timer delayed work.

In the above scenario, fd_timer_fn is set to fd_watchdog(), meaning
it is trying to cancel its own work.
This results in a hang as cancel_delayed_work_sync() is waiting for the
watchdog (itself) to return, which never happens.

This can be reproduced relatively consistently by attempting to read a
broken floppy, and ejecting it while IO is being attempted and retried.

To resolve this, this patch calls cancel_delayed_work() instead, which
cancels the work without waiting for the watchdog to return and finish.

Before this regression was introduced, the code in this section used
del_timer(), and not del_timer_sync() to delete the watchdog timer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/399e486c-6540-db27-76aa-7a271b061f76@tasossah.com


Fixes: 070ad7e7 ("floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTasos Sahanidis <tasos@tasossah.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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