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block: avoid potential deadlock on zone revalidation failure
authorDamien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Wed, 1 Jul 2026 08:21:55 +0000 (17:21 +0900)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Wed, 1 Jul 2026 11:34:35 +0000 (05:34 -0600)
commit3dd63dba8f9cb6990a40af7ed66ee0159f475819
treec6827695a008c1f9d5a15fc91a094dcf9b8b1423
parent30e542a36228db353e81efcd39e4dbc7a95c88c5
block: avoid potential deadlock on zone revalidation failure

If revalidating the zones of a zoned block device with
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() fails during a SCSI disk rescan, the following
lockdep splat is thrown:

[  347.251859] [  T11230] sda: failed to revalidate zones

[  347.261380] [  T11230] ======================================================
[  347.263882] [  T11230] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  347.266353] [  T11230] 7.1.0+ #1194 Not tainted
[  347.268052] [  T11230] ------------------------------------------------------
[  347.270537] [  T11230] tcsh/11230 is trying to acquire lock:
[  347.272555] [  T11230] ffffffff8f91d400 (wq_pool_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: destroy_workqueue+0x15d/0x8d0
[  347.275914] [  T11230]
                          but task is already holding lock:
[  347.278646] [  T11230] ffff88812fa1bcc0 (&q->q_usage_counter(io)#5){++++}-{0:0}, at: blk_mq_freeze_queue_nomemsave+0x16/0x30
[  347.282503] [  T11230]
                          which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  347.286239] [  T11230]
                          the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  347.289408] [  T11230]
                          -> #2 (&q->q_usage_counter(io)#5){++++}-{0:0}:
[  347.292437] [  T11230]        blk_alloc_queue+0x5ca/0x750
[  347.294379] [  T11230]        blk_mq_alloc_queue+0x14c/0x240
[  347.296375] [  T11230]        scsi_alloc_sdev+0x871/0xd10 [scsi_mod]
[  347.298619] [  T11230]        scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x600/0xc50 [scsi_mod]
[  347.301056] [  T11230]        __scsi_scan_target+0x187/0x3b0 [scsi_mod]
[  347.303385] [  T11230]        scsi_scan_channel+0xf2/0x180 [scsi_mod]
[  347.305651] [  T11230]        scsi_scan_host_selected+0x20b/0x2d0 [scsi_mod]
[  347.308119] [  T11230]        do_scan_async+0x42/0x420 [scsi_mod]
[  347.310276] [  T11230]        async_run_entry_fn+0x94/0x5a0
[  347.312284] [  T11230]        process_one_work+0x8da/0x1690
[  347.314287] [  T11230]        worker_thread+0x5fe/0x1010
[  347.316216] [  T11230]        kthread+0x358/0x450
[  347.317675] [  T11230]        ret_from_fork+0x5b9/0x8e0
[  347.319181] [  T11230]        ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[  347.320778] [  T11230]
                          -> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
[  347.322890] [  T11230]        fs_reclaim_acquire+0xd5/0x120
[  347.324464] [  T11230]        __kmalloc_cache_node_noprof+0x39/0x620
[  347.326223] [  T11230]        init_rescuer+0x19b/0x560
[  347.327697] [  T11230]        workqueue_init+0x33b/0x6a0
[  347.329224] [  T11230]        kernel_init_freeable+0x2eb/0x600
[  347.330881] [  T11230]        kernel_init+0x1c/0x140
[  347.332334] [  T11230]        ret_from_fork+0x5b9/0x8e0
[  347.333847] [  T11230]        ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[  347.335360] [  T11230]
                          -> #0 (wq_pool_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
[  347.337510] [  T11230]        __lock_acquire+0xdea/0x2260
[  347.339030] [  T11230]        lock_acquire+0x187/0x2f0
[  347.340495] [  T11230]        __mutex_lock+0x1ab/0x2600
[  347.341464] [  T11230]        destroy_workqueue+0x15d/0x8d0
[  347.342485] [  T11230]        disk_free_zone_resources+0xd5/0x560
[  347.343577] [  T11230]        blk_revalidate_disk_zones+0x620/0xac7
[  347.344723] [  T11230]        sd_zbc_revalidate_zones+0x1dd/0x790 [sd_mod]
[  347.345938] [  T11230]        sd_revalidate_disk+0xc66/0x8e60 [sd_mod]
[  347.347112] [  T11230]        scsi_rescan_device+0x1f9/0x310 [scsi_mod]
[  347.348318] [  T11230]        store_rescan_field+0x19/0x20 [scsi_mod]
[  347.349507] [  T11230]        kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3d2/0x5e0
[  347.350565] [  T11230]        vfs_write+0x469/0x1000
[  347.351484] [  T11230]        ksys_write+0x116/0x250
[  347.352403] [  T11230]        do_syscall_64+0xf0/0x6e0
[  347.353361] [  T11230]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
[  347.354533] [  T11230]
                          other info that might help us debug this:

[  347.356432] [  T11230] Chain exists of:
                            wq_pool_mutex --> fs_reclaim --> &q->q_usage_counter(io)#5

[  347.358919] [  T11230]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  347.360307] [  T11230]        CPU0                    CPU1
[  347.361327] [  T11230]        ----                    ----
[  347.362340] [  T11230]   lock(&q->q_usage_counter(io)#5);
[  347.363344] [  T11230]                                lock(fs_reclaim);
[  347.364526] [  T11230]                                lock(&q->q_usage_counter(io)#5);
[  347.365968] [  T11230]   lock(wq_pool_mutex);
[  347.366811] [  T11230]
                           *** DEADLOCK ***

This happens because SCSI disk rescan is executed from a work context
and a failure of blk_revalidate_disk_zones() causes a call to
disk_free_zone_resources() which will free the disk zone write plug
workqueue.

Avoid this by delaying the destruction of the disk zone write plug
workqueue to disk_release(). Do this by introducing the function
disk_release_zone_resources() and using this new function from
disk_release(). This new function destroys the zone write plugs workqueue
and calls disk_free_zone_resources(), thus allowing to remove the call to
destroy_workqueue() from disk_free_zone_resources().
disk_alloc_zone_resources() is modified to not create the disk zone
write plug work queue if it already exists.

Fixes: a8f59e5a5dea ("block: use a per disk workqueue for zone write plugging")
Cc: stable@vger.kernek.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260701082155.1369996-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
block/blk-zoned.c
block/blk.h
block/genhd.c