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Commit 40a9b796 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Ben Myers
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xfs: prevent recursion in xfs_buf_iorequest



If the b_iodone handler is run in calling context in xfs_buf_iorequest we
can run into a recursion where xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks keeps calling back
into xfs_buf_iorequest because an I/O error happened, which keeps calling
back into xfs_buf_iorequest.  This chain will usually not take long
because the filesystem gets shut down because of log I/O errors, but even
over a short time it can cause stack overflows if run on the same context.

As a short term workaround make sure we always call the iodone handler in
workqueue context.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
parent aa292847
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