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Async discard does not acquire the block group reference count while it holds a reference on the discard list. This is generally OK, as the paths which destroy block groups tend to try to synchronize on cancelling async discard work. However, relying on cancelling work requires careful analysis to be sure it is safe from races with unpinning scheduling more work. While I am unable to find a race with unpinning in the current code for either the unused bgs or relocation paths, I believe we have one in an older version of auto relocation in a Meta internal build. This suggests that this is in fact an error prone model, and could be fragile to future changes to these bg deletion paths. To make this ownership more clear, add a refcount for async discard. If work is queued for a block group, its refcount should be incremented, and when work is completed or canceled, it should be decremented. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+ Signed-off-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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