Deadlock in flush_workqueue() results in hung nfs clients
Issue
- This is a request to backport a fix to 5.2.z,
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Randomly, a customer's NFS automounts will deadlock in the workqueue code during unmount.
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It results in uninterruptible processes and an unusable system.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 2
- All architectures
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