From 286f3e13a1dc7f32407629fbd7aabc8ea78c62b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:13:54 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] fix possible deadlock in scsi_lib.c If a filesystem, while writing out data, decides that it is good to issue a cache flush on a SCSI drive (or other 'sd' device), it will call blkdev_issue_flush which calls ->issue_flush_fn which is scsi_issue_flush_fn. This calls sd_issue_flush which calls sd_sync_cache, which calls scsi_execute_request. This will (as sshdr != NULL) call kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL) If memory is tight, the presence of GFP_KERNEL may cause write requests to be sent to some filesystem to free up memory, however if that filesystem is waiting for the issue_flush_fn to complete, you could get a deadlock. I wonder if it might be more appropriate to use GFP_NOIO as in the following patch. I wonder if it might be even more appropriate to cope better with a kmalloc failure, especially as in this use, sd_sync_cache only will use the sense information to print out a more informative error message. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 77f2d444f7e0..2ad60f1dbc63 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ int scsi_execute_req(struct scsi_device *sdev, const unsigned char *cmd, int result; if (sshdr) { - sense = kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + sense = kmalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, GFP_NOIO); if (!sense) return DRIVER_ERROR << 24; memset(sense, 0, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE);