dm: avoid destroying table in dm_any_congested
dm_any_congested() just checks for the DMF_BLOCK_IO and has no
code to make sure that suspend waits for dm_any_congested() to
complete. This patch adds such a check.
Without it, a race can occur with dm_table_put() attempting to
destroying the table in the wrong thread, the one running
dm_any_congested() which is meant to be quick and return
immediately.
Two examples of problems:
1. Sleeping functions called from congested code, the caller
of which holds a spin lock.
2. An ABBA deadlock between pdflush and multipathd. The two locks
in contention are inode lock and kernel lock.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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