--- /dev/null
+From stable+bounces-216860-greg=kroah.com@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 17 17:14:38 2026
+From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:14:32 -0500
+Subject: Revert "f2fs: block cache/dio write during f2fs_enable_checkpoint()"
+To: stable@vger.kernel.org
+Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>, stable@kernel.org, Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Message-ID: <20260217161432.3763097-1-sashal@kernel.org>
+
+From: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
+
+[ Upstream commit 3996b70209f145bfcf2afc7d05dd92c27b233b48 ]
+
+This reverts commit 196c81fdd438f7ac429d5639090a9816abb9760a.
+
+Original patch may cause below deadlock, revert it.
+
+write remount
+- write_begin
+ - lock_page --- lock A
+ - prepare_write_begin
+ - f2fs_map_lock
+ - f2fs_enable_checkpoint
+ - down_write(cp_enable_rwsem) --- lock B
+ - sync_inode_sb
+ - writepages
+ - lock_page --- lock A
+ - down_read(cp_enable_rwsem) --- lock A
+
+Cc: stable@kernel.org
+Fixes: 196c81fdd438 ("f2fs: block cache/dio write during f2fs_enable_checkpoint()")
+Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
+[ drop tracing bits ]
+Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ fs/f2fs/data.c | 2 --
+ fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 3 +--
+ fs/f2fs/super.c | 38 ++++++++------------------------------
+ 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/fs/f2fs/data.c
++++ b/fs/f2fs/data.c
+@@ -1424,7 +1424,6 @@ static int __allocate_data_block(struct
+
+ static void f2fs_map_lock(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, int flag)
+ {
+- f2fs_down_read(&sbi->cp_enable_rwsem);
+ if (flag == F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRE_AIO)
+ f2fs_down_read(&sbi->node_change);
+ else
+@@ -1437,7 +1436,6 @@ static void f2fs_map_unlock(struct f2fs_
+ f2fs_up_read(&sbi->node_change);
+ else
+ f2fs_unlock_op(sbi);
+- f2fs_up_read(&sbi->cp_enable_rwsem);
+ }
+
+ int f2fs_get_block_locked(struct dnode_of_data *dn, pgoff_t index)
+--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
++++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ enum {
+ #define DEF_CP_INTERVAL 60 /* 60 secs */
+ #define DEF_IDLE_INTERVAL 5 /* 5 secs */
+ #define DEF_DISABLE_INTERVAL 5 /* 5 secs */
+-#define DEF_ENABLE_INTERVAL 5 /* 5 secs */
++#define DEF_ENABLE_INTERVAL 16 /* 16 secs */
+ #define DEF_DISABLE_QUICK_INTERVAL 1 /* 1 secs */
+ #define DEF_UMOUNT_DISCARD_TIMEOUT 5 /* 5 secs */
+
+@@ -1720,7 +1720,6 @@ struct f2fs_sb_info {
+ long interval_time[MAX_TIME]; /* to store thresholds */
+ struct ckpt_req_control cprc_info; /* for checkpoint request control */
+ struct cp_stats cp_stats; /* for time stat of checkpoint */
+- struct f2fs_rwsem cp_enable_rwsem; /* block cache/dio write */
+
+ struct inode_management im[MAX_INO_ENTRY]; /* manage inode cache */
+
+--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
++++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
+@@ -2636,11 +2636,10 @@ restore_flag:
+ static int f2fs_enable_checkpoint(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
+ {
+ unsigned int nr_pages = get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DATA) / 16;
+- long long start, writeback, lock, sync_inode, end;
++ long long start, writeback, end;
+ int ret;
+
+- f2fs_info(sbi, "%s start, meta: %lld, node: %lld, data: %lld",
+- __func__,
++ f2fs_info(sbi, "f2fs_enable_checkpoint() starts, meta: %lld, node: %lld, data: %lld",
+ get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_META),
+ get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES),
+ get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DATA));
+@@ -2659,18 +2658,11 @@ static int f2fs_enable_checkpoint(struct
+ }
+ writeback = ktime_get();
+
+- f2fs_down_write(&sbi->cp_enable_rwsem);
+-
+- lock = ktime_get();
+-
+- if (get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DATA))
+- sync_inodes_sb(sbi->sb);
++ sync_inodes_sb(sbi->sb);
+
+ if (unlikely(get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DATA)))
+- f2fs_warn(sbi, "%s: has some unwritten data: %lld",
+- __func__, get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DATA));
+-
+- sync_inode = ktime_get();
++ f2fs_warn(sbi, "checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data: %lld",
++ get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DATA));
+
+ f2fs_down_write(&sbi->gc_lock);
+ f2fs_dirty_to_prefree(sbi);
+@@ -2679,13 +2671,6 @@ static int f2fs_enable_checkpoint(struct
+ set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_IS_DIRTY);
+ f2fs_up_write(&sbi->gc_lock);
+
+- f2fs_info(sbi, "%s sync_fs, meta: %lld, imeta: %lld, node: %lld, dents: %lld, qdata: %lld",
+- __func__,
+- get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_META),
+- get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_IMETA),
+- get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_NODES),
+- get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_DENTS),
+- get_pages(sbi, F2FS_DIRTY_QDATA));
+ ret = f2fs_sync_fs(sbi->sb, 1);
+ if (ret)
+ f2fs_err(sbi, "%s sync_fs failed, ret: %d", __func__, ret);
+@@ -2693,17 +2678,11 @@ static int f2fs_enable_checkpoint(struct
+ /* Let's ensure there's no pending checkpoint anymore */
+ f2fs_flush_ckpt_thread(sbi);
+
+- f2fs_up_write(&sbi->cp_enable_rwsem);
+-
+ end = ktime_get();
+
+- f2fs_info(sbi, "%s end, writeback:%llu, "
+- "lock:%llu, sync_inode:%llu, sync_fs:%llu",
+- __func__,
+- ktime_ms_delta(writeback, start),
+- ktime_ms_delta(lock, writeback),
+- ktime_ms_delta(sync_inode, lock),
+- ktime_ms_delta(end, sync_inode));
++ f2fs_info(sbi, "f2fs_enable_checkpoint() finishes, writeback:%llu, sync:%llu",
++ ktime_ms_delta(writeback, start),
++ ktime_ms_delta(end, writeback));
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+@@ -4904,7 +4883,6 @@ try_onemore:
+ init_f2fs_rwsem(&sbi->node_change);
+ spin_lock_init(&sbi->stat_lock);
+ init_f2fs_rwsem(&sbi->cp_rwsem);
+- init_f2fs_rwsem(&sbi->cp_enable_rwsem);
+ init_f2fs_rwsem(&sbi->quota_sem);
+ init_waitqueue_head(&sbi->cp_wait);
+ spin_lock_init(&sbi->error_lock);