[PATCH] nvme-core: fix deadlock when delete ctrl due to reconnect fail

Chao Leng lengchao at huawei.com
Mon Jul 27 04:01:27 EDT 2020


A deadlock happens when test link blink for nvme over roce. If time out
in reconneting process, nvme_rdma_timeout->nvme_rdma_teardown_io_queues
will quiesce the io queues, and then the ctrl will be deleted after
reconnect times exceed max_reconnects. If run fdisk from the time
when the queue is quiesced to the time when the ctrl is deleted,
delete ctrl will deadlock, the process: nvme_do_delete_ctrl->
nvme_remove_namespaces->nvme_ns_remove->blk_cleanup_queue->
blk_freeze_queue->blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait, blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait
will wait until q_usage_counter of queue become 0, but the queue is
quiesced, can not clean any request.

Solution: nvme_rdma_timeout should call nvme_start_queues after
call nvme_rdma_teardown_io_queues. further more, we need start queues
regardless of whether the remove flag is set, after cancel requests
in nvme_rdma_teardown_io_queues.

Signed-off-by: Chao Leng <lengchao at huawei.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
index f8f856dc0c67..b381e2cde50a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/rdma.c
@@ -989,8 +989,7 @@ static void nvme_rdma_teardown_io_queues(struct nvme_rdma_ctrl *ctrl,
 				nvme_cancel_request, &ctrl->ctrl);
 			blk_mq_tagset_wait_completed_request(ctrl->ctrl.tagset);
 		}
-		if (remove)
-			nvme_start_queues(&ctrl->ctrl);
+		nvme_start_queues(&ctrl->ctrl);
 		nvme_rdma_destroy_io_queues(ctrl, remove);
 	}
 }
@@ -1128,7 +1127,6 @@ static void nvme_rdma_error_recovery_work(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	nvme_stop_keep_alive(&ctrl->ctrl);
 	nvme_rdma_teardown_io_queues(ctrl, false);
-	nvme_start_queues(&ctrl->ctrl);
 	nvme_rdma_teardown_admin_queue(ctrl, false);
 	blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(ctrl->ctrl.admin_q);
 
-- 
2.16.4




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