sg: fix unkillable I/O wait deadlock with scsi-mq
When using the write()/read() interface for submitting commands, the SCSI generic driver does not call blk_put_request() on a completed SCSI command until userspace calls read() to get the command completion. Since scsi-mq uses a fixed number of preallocated requests, this makes it possible for userspace to exhaust the entire preallocated supply of requests. For places in the kernel that call blk_get_request() with GFP_KERNEL, this can cause the calling process to deadlock in a permanent unkillable I/O wait in blk_get_request() -> ... -> bt_get(). For places in the kernel that call blk_get_request() with GFP_ATOMIC, this can cause blk_get_request() always to return -EWOULDBLOCK. Note that these problems happen only if scsi-mq is enabled. Prevent the problems by calling blk_put_request() as soon as the SCSI command completes instead of waiting for userspace to call read(). Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.17+ Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Acked-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Tested-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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