From: Chao Yu Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 01:14:38 +0000 (+0000) Subject: f2fs: fix potential deadlock in gc_merge path of f2fs_balance_fs() X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b4468ec023d0d1b4669dfb867588997cc03a06b;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git f2fs: fix potential deadlock in gc_merge path of f2fs_balance_fs() When we mount device w/ gc_merge mount option, we may suffer below potential deadlock: Kworker GC trehad Truncator - f2fs_write_cache_pages - f2fs_write_single_data_page - f2fs_do_write_data_page - folio_start_writeback --- set writeback flag on folio - f2fs_outplace_write_data : cached folio in internal bio cache - f2fs_balance_fs - wake_up(gc_thread) : wake up gc thread to run foreground GC - finish_wait(fggc_wq) : wait on the waitqueue --- wait on GC thread to finish the work - truncate_inode_pages_range - __filemap_get_folio(, FGP_LOCK) --- lock folio - truncate_inode_partial_folio - folio_wait_writeback --- wait on writeback being cleared - do_garbage_collect - move_data_page - f2fs_get_lock_data_folio - lock on folio --- blocked on folio's lock In order to avoid such deadlock, let's call below functions to commit cached bios in GC_MERGE path of f2fs_balance_fs() as the same as we did in NOGC_MERGE path. - f2fs_submit_merged_write(sbi, DATA); - f2fs_submit_all_merged_ipu_writes(sbi); Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: 351df4b20115 ("f2fs: add segment operations") Cc: Ruipeng Qi Reported: Sandeep Dhavale Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Chao Yu Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim --- diff --git a/fs/f2fs/segment.c b/fs/f2fs/segment.c index 7c8ac62b1b0d8..1ef4edb770784 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/segment.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/segment.c @@ -445,6 +445,13 @@ void f2fs_balance_fs(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool need) if (has_enough_free_secs(sbi, 0, 0)) return; + /* + * Submit all cached OPU/IPU DATA bios before triggering + * foreground GC to avoid potential deadlocks. + */ + f2fs_submit_merged_write(sbi, DATA); + f2fs_submit_all_merged_ipu_writes(sbi); + if (test_opt(sbi, GC_MERGE) && sbi->gc_thread && sbi->gc_thread->f2fs_gc_task) { DEFINE_WAIT(wait); @@ -464,13 +471,6 @@ void f2fs_balance_fs(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool need) .err_gc_skipped = false, .nr_free_secs = 1 }; - /* - * Submit all cached OPU/IPU DATA bios before triggering - * foreground GC to avoid potential deadlocks. - */ - f2fs_submit_merged_write(sbi, DATA); - f2fs_submit_all_merged_ipu_writes(sbi); - f2fs_down_write_trace(&sbi->gc_lock, &gc_control.lc); stat_inc_gc_call_count(sbi, FOREGROUND); f2fs_gc(sbi, &gc_control);