dm: allocate a special workqueue for deferred device removal
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Sat, 14 Jun 2014 17:44:31 +0000 (13:44 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:21:05 +0000 (16:21 -0700)
commit5632b7dac85ab102c4b6efae57e41e8c71f84649
tree9a2d7a9ef0c187ce83405d2256bf5b4f191d9b88
parent7d63157cc8e0272e910c2e155000288d34eca589
dm: allocate a special workqueue for deferred device removal

commit acfe0ad74d2e1bfc81d1d7bf5e15b043985d3650 upstream.

The commit 2c140a246dc ("dm: allow remove to be deferred") introduced a
deferred removal feature for the device mapper.  When this feature is
used (by passing a flag DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE to DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD ioctl)
and the user tries to remove a device that is currently in use, the
device will be removed automatically in the future when the last user
closes it.

Device mapper used the system workqueue to perform deferred removals.
However, some targets (dm-raid1, dm-mpath, dm-stripe) flush work items
scheduled for the system workqueue from their destructor.  If the
destructor itself is called from the system workqueue during deferred
removal, it introduces a possible deadlock - the workqueue tries to flush
itself.

Fix this possible deadlock by introducing a new workqueue for deferred
removals.  We allocate just one workqueue for all dm targets.  The
ability of dm targets to process IOs isn't dependent on deferred removal
of unused targets, so a deadlock due to shared workqueue isn't possible.

Also, cleanup local_init() to eliminate potential for returning success
on failure.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/dm.c