dm bufio: simplify DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP locking
Historically none of the bufio code runs in interrupt context but with the use of DM_BUFIO_CLIENT_NO_SLEEP a bufio client can, see: commit 5721d4e5 ("dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature") That said, the new tasklet usecase still doesn't require interrupts be disabled by bufio (let alone conditionally restore them). Yet with PREEMPT_RT, and falling back from tasklet to workqueue, care must be taken to properly synchronize between softirq and process context, otherwise ABBA deadlock may occur. While it is unnecessary to disable bottom-half preemption within a tasklet, we must consistently do so in process context to ensure locking is in the proper order. Fix these issues by switching from spin_lock_irq{save,restore} to using spin_{lock,unlock}_bh instead. Also remove the 'spinlock_flags' member in dm_bufio_client struct (that can be used unsafely if bufio must recurse on behalf of some caller, e.g. block layer's submit_bio). Fixes: 5721d4e5 ("dm verity: Add optional "try_verify_in_tasklet" feature") Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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