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scsi: core: Use GFP_NOIO to avoid circular locking dependency
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Filesystems can write to disk from page reclaim with __GFP_FS
set. Marc found a case where scsi_realloc_sdev_budget_map() ends up in
page reclaim with GFP_KERNEL, where it could try to take filesystem
locks again, leading to a deadlock.

WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.13.0 linuxppc#1 Not tainted
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kswapd0/70 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff8881025d5d78 (&q->q_usage_counter(io)){++++}-{0:0}, at: blk_mq_submit_bio+0x461/0x6e0

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff81ef5f40 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat+0x9f/0x760

The full lockdep splat can be found in Marc's report:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/24/1101

Avoid the potential deadlock by doing the allocation with GFP_NOIO, which
prevents both filesystem and block layer recursion.

Reported-by: Marc Aurèle La France <tsi@tuyoix.net>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250129104525.0ae8421e@fangorn
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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rikvanriel authored and martinkpetersen committed Feb 3, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int scsi_realloc_sdev_budget_map(struct scsi_device *sdev,
}
ret = sbitmap_init_node(&sdev->budget_map,
scsi_device_max_queue_depth(sdev),
new_shift, GFP_KERNEL,
new_shift, GFP_NOIO,
sdev->request_queue->node, false, true);
if (!ret)
sbitmap_resize(&sdev->budget_map, depth);
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