Re: [PATCH 4.4 63/86] block: defer timeouts to a workqueue

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:31:47AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 09:00:38AM +0300, Henri Rosten wrote:
> > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 07:36:34PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > commit 287922eb0b186e2a5bf54fdd04b734c25c90035c upstream.
> > 
> > I notice 287922eb0b18 has been referenced in Fixes-tag in mainline 
> > commit 5480e299b5ae ("scsi: iscsi: Fix a potential deadlock in the 
> > timeout handler"). Consider if backporting 5480e299b5ae together with 
> > this 4.4 version of 287922eb0b18 is also relevant.
> 
> Ugh, there are lots of "fixes for fixes" in these releases that seem to
> be needed.  Let me dig through and find them all as I should have done
> before starting this -rc round :(

Turns out you found the two issues here, and I've queued up this fix
now.

thanks,

greg k-h