[PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] NFS: Fix a deadlock involving nfs_release_folio()

From: Li hongliang

Date: Tue Feb 24 2026 - 02:03:17 EST


From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit cce0be6eb4971456b703aaeafd571650d314bcca ]

Wang Zhaolong reports a deadlock involving NFSv4.1 state recovery
waiting on kthreadd, which is attempting to reclaim memory by calling
nfs_release_folio(). The latter cannot make progress due to state
recovery being needed.

It seems that the only safe thing to do here is to kick off a writeback
of the folio, without waiting for completion, or else kicking off an
asynchronous commit.

Reported-by: Wang Zhaolong <wangzhaolong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 96780ca55e3c ("NFS: fix up nfs_release_folio() to try to release the page")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Minor conflict resolved. ]
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/file.c | 3 ++-
fs/nfs/nfstrace.h | 3 +++
fs/nfs/write.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/file.c b/fs/nfs/file.c
index 9b6f4cc4d582..cf16ee710d42 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/file.c
@@ -459,7 +459,8 @@ static bool nfs_release_folio(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp)
if ((current_gfp_context(gfp) & GFP_KERNEL) != GFP_KERNEL ||
current_is_kswapd() || current_is_kcompactd())
return false;
- if (nfs_wb_folio(folio_file_mapping(folio)->host, folio) < 0)
+ if (nfs_wb_folio_reclaim(folio_file_mapping(folio)->host, folio) < 0 ||
+ folio_test_private(folio))
return false;
}
return nfs_fscache_release_folio(folio, gfp);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfstrace.h b/fs/nfs/nfstrace.h
index 004c25f0782b..85224e9369e7 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfstrace.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfstrace.h
@@ -1033,6 +1033,9 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(nfs_folio_event_done,
DEFINE_NFS_FOLIO_EVENT(nfs_aop_readpage);
DEFINE_NFS_FOLIO_EVENT_DONE(nfs_aop_readpage_done);

+DEFINE_NFS_FOLIO_EVENT(nfs_writeback_folio_reclaim);
+DEFINE_NFS_FOLIO_EVENT_DONE(nfs_writeback_folio_reclaim_done);
+
DEFINE_NFS_FOLIO_EVENT(nfs_writeback_folio);
DEFINE_NFS_FOLIO_EVENT_DONE(nfs_writeback_folio_done);

diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 7b225ef1a284..dc57e67cefcd 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -2121,6 +2121,39 @@ int nfs_wb_folio_cancel(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio)
return ret;
}

+/**
+ * nfs_wb_folio_reclaim - Write back all requests on one page
+ * @inode: pointer to page
+ * @folio: pointer to folio
+ *
+ * Assumes that the folio has been locked by the caller
+ */
+int nfs_wb_folio_reclaim(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio)
+{
+ loff_t range_start = folio_pos(folio);
+ size_t len = folio_size(folio);
+ struct writeback_control wbc = {
+ .sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL,
+ .nr_to_write = 0,
+ .range_start = range_start,
+ .range_end = range_start + len - 1,
+ .for_sync = 1,
+ };
+ int ret;
+
+ if (folio_test_writeback(folio))
+ return -EBUSY;
+ if (folio_clear_dirty_for_io(folio)) {
+ trace_nfs_writeback_folio_reclaim(inode, range_start, len);
+ ret = nfs_writepage_locked(folio, &wbc);
+ trace_nfs_writeback_folio_reclaim_done(inode, range_start, len,
+ ret);
+ return ret;
+ }
+ nfs_commit_inode(inode, 0);
+ return 0;
+}
+
/**
* nfs_wb_folio - Write back all requests on one page
* @inode: pointer to page
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index 832b7e354b4e..86d589070b23 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -608,6 +608,7 @@ extern int nfs_update_folio(struct file *file, struct folio *folio,
extern int nfs_sync_inode(struct inode *inode);
extern int nfs_wb_all(struct inode *inode);
extern int nfs_wb_folio(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio);
+extern int nfs_wb_folio_reclaim(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio);
int nfs_wb_folio_cancel(struct inode *inode, struct folio *folio);
extern int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *, int);
extern struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void);
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