Re: [PATCH for-6.18/block 08/10] blk-mq: fix potential deadlock while nr_requests grown

From: Nilay Shroff

Date: Tue Sep 09 2025 - 08:22:24 EST




On 9/8/25 11:45 AM, Yu Kuai wrote:
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Allocate and free sched_tags while queue is freezed can deadlock[1],
> this is a long term problem, hence allocate memory before freezing
> queue and free memory after queue is unfreezed.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/0659ea8d-a463-47c8-9180-43c719e106eb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: e3a2b3f931f5 ("blk-mq: allow changing of queue depth through sysfs")
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>