floppy: Fix hang in watchdog when disk is ejected
authorTasos Sahanidis <tasos@tasossah.com>
Fri, 3 Sep 2021 06:47:58 +0000 (09:47 +0300)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fri, 3 Dec 2021 13:32:40 +0000 (06:32 -0700)
When the watchdog detects a disk change, it calls cancel_activity(),
which in turn tries to cancel the fd_timer delayed work.

In the above scenario, fd_timer_fn is set to fd_watchdog(), meaning
it is trying to cancel its own work.
This results in a hang as cancel_delayed_work_sync() is waiting for the
watchdog (itself) to return, which never happens.

This can be reproduced relatively consistently by attempting to read a
broken floppy, and ejecting it while IO is being attempted and retried.

To resolve this, this patch calls cancel_delayed_work() instead, which
cancels the work without waiting for the watchdog to return and finish.

Before this regression was introduced, the code in this section used
del_timer(), and not del_timer_sync() to delete the watchdog timer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/399e486c-6540-db27-76aa-7a271b061f76@tasossah.com
Fixes: 070ad7e793dc ("floppy: convert to delayed work and single-thread wq")
Signed-off-by: Tasos Sahanidis <tasos@tasossah.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/block/floppy.c

index 0c638de..f0e36c1 100644 (file)
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(fd_timer, fd_timer_workfn);
 static void cancel_activity(void)
 {
        do_floppy = NULL;
-       cancel_delayed_work_sync(&fd_timer);
+       cancel_delayed_work(&fd_timer);
        cancel_work_sync(&floppy_work);
 }