From d50235b7bc3ee0a0427984d763ea7534149531b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jianpeng Ma Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:25:24 +0200 Subject: elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching There's a race between elevator switching and normal io operation. Because the allocation of struct elevator_queue and struct elevator_data don't in a atomic operation.So there are have chance to use NULL ->elevator_data. For example: Thread A: Thread B blk_queu_bio elevator_switch spin_lock_irq(q->queue_block) elevator_alloc elv_merge elevator_init_fn Because call elevator_alloc, it can't hold queue_lock and the ->elevator_data is NULL.So at the same time, threadA call elv_merge and nedd some info of elevator_data.So the crash happened. Move the elevator_alloc into func elevator_init_fn, it make the operations in a atomic operation. Using the follow method can easy reproduce this bug 1:dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null 2:while true;do echo noop > scheduler;echo deadline > scheduler;done The test method also use this method. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/deadline-iosched.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/deadline-iosched.c') diff --git a/block/deadline-iosched.c b/block/deadline-iosched.c index ba19a3afab79..20614a332362 100644 --- a/block/deadline-iosched.c +++ b/block/deadline-iosched.c @@ -337,13 +337,21 @@ static void deadline_exit_queue(struct elevator_queue *e) /* * initialize elevator private data (deadline_data). */ -static int deadline_init_queue(struct request_queue *q) +static int deadline_init_queue(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e) { struct deadline_data *dd; + struct elevator_queue *eq; + + eq = elevator_alloc(q, e); + if (!eq) + return -ENOMEM; dd = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*dd), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, q->node); - if (!dd) + if (!dd) { + kobject_put(&eq->kobj); return -ENOMEM; + } + eq->elevator_data = dd; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dd->fifo_list[READ]); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dd->fifo_list[WRITE]); @@ -355,7 +363,9 @@ static int deadline_init_queue(struct request_queue *q) dd->front_merges = 1; dd->fifo_batch = fifo_batch; - q->elevator->elevator_data = dd; + spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); + q->elevator = eq; + spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3