[RFC PATCH] fuse: permit freezing while waiting for request answer

From: Sergey Senozhatsky

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 06:01:38 EST


Suspend freezes tasks in random order and doesn't take into
consideration producer-consumer dependency that may exist
between tasks. One example where this can cause issues is:
fuse server getting frozen ahead of clients, which then get
stuck waiting for req answers that never come (the server
is already frozen):

PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
Filesystems sync: 0.018 seconds
Freezing user space processes
Freezing user space processes failed after 20.001 seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
task:ThreadPoolForeg state:D stack:0 pid:7873 tgid:7854 ppid:7827 flags:0x00004006
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x554/0x1320
? vprintk_emit+0x2a8/0x320
schedule+0x5e/0xd0
__fuse_simple_request+0x4c8/0x6d0
fuse_do_getattr+0x1e9/0x320
fuse_update_get_attr+0x362/0x6a0
fuse_file_read_iter+0x13a/0x1b0
vfs_read+0x29f/0x2f0
ksys_read+0x75/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x70/0xf0

Make all wait-event calls in request_wait_answer() freezer-friendly.
This uses TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE because often time we freeze holding
locks (in the upper layers), which triggers debug_locks warning.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/dev.c | 14 +++++++++-----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dev.c b/fs/fuse/dev.c
index 27dafda2a841..9e98ece4143f 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
@@ -703,8 +703,10 @@ static void request_wait_answer(struct fuse_req *req)

if (!fch->no_interrupt) {
/* Any signal may interrupt this */
- err = wait_event_interruptible(req->waitq,
- test_bit(FR_FINISHED, &req->flags));
+ err = wait_event_state(req->waitq,
+ test_bit(FR_FINISHED, &req->flags),
+ TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE |
+ TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE);
if (!err)
return;

@@ -719,8 +721,9 @@ static void request_wait_answer(struct fuse_req *req)
bool removed;

/* Only fatal signals may interrupt this */
- err = wait_event_killable(req->waitq,
- test_bit(FR_FINISHED, &req->flags));
+ err = wait_event_state(req->waitq,
+ test_bit(FR_FINISHED, &req->flags),
+ TASK_KILLABLE | TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE);
if (!err)
return;

@@ -741,7 +744,8 @@ static void request_wait_answer(struct fuse_req *req)
* Either request is already in userspace, or it was forced.
* Wait it out.
*/
- wait_event(req->waitq, test_bit(FR_FINISHED, &req->flags));
+ wait_event_state(req->waitq, test_bit(FR_FINISHED, &req->flags),
+ TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE | TASK_FREEZABLE_UNSAFE);
}

static void __fuse_request_send(struct fuse_req *req)
--
2.55.0.679.g6767b8d81c-goog