Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-timeout.c b/block/blk-timeout.c
index a09535377a94..bbbdc4b8ccf2 100644
--- a/block/blk-timeout.c
+++ b/block/blk-timeout.c
@@ -209,12 +209,19 @@ void blk_abort_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 {
         unsigned long flags;
         struct request *rq, *tmp;
+        LIST_HEAD(list);
 
         spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
 
         elv_abort_queue(q);
 
-        list_for_each_entry_safe(rq, tmp, &q->timeout_list, timeout_list)
+        /*
+         * Splice entries to local list, to avoid deadlocking if entries
+         * get readded to the timeout list by error handling
+         */
+        list_splice_init(&q->timeout_list, &list);
+
+        list_for_each_entry_safe(rq, tmp, &list, timeout_list)
                 blk_abort_request(rq);
 
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);