[PATCH 1/2] f2fs: fix iostat lock protection

From: Bo Ye
Date: Fri Mar 31 2023 - 05:28:48 EST


From: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Made iostat lock irq safe to avoid potentinal deadlock.

Deadlock scenario:
f2fs_attr_store
-> f2fs_sbi_store
-> _sbi_store
-> spin_lock(sbi->iostat_lock)
<interrupt request>
-> scsi_end_request
-> bio_endio
-> f2fs_dio_read_end_io
-> f2fs_update_iostat
-> spin_lock_irqsave(sbi->iostat_lock) ===> Dead lock here

Signed-off-by: Qilin Tan <qilin.tan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/sysfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
index 0b19163c90d4..fd238a68017e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/sysfs.c
@@ -575,9 +575,9 @@ static ssize_t __sbi_store(struct f2fs_attr *a,
if (!strcmp(a->attr.name, "iostat_period_ms")) {
if (t < MIN_IOSTAT_PERIOD_MS || t > MAX_IOSTAT_PERIOD_MS)
return -EINVAL;
- spin_lock(&sbi->iostat_lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&sbi->iostat_lock);
sbi->iostat_period_ms = (unsigned int)t;
- spin_unlock(&sbi->iostat_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&sbi->iostat_lock);
return count;
}
#endif
--
2.17.0