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/noop-iosched.c | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/noop-iosched.c') diff --git a/block/noop-iosched.c b/block/noop-iosched.c index 5d1bf70e33d5a..3de89d4690f3b 100644 --- a/block/noop-iosched.c +++ b/block/noop-iosched.c @@ -59,16 +59,27 @@ noop_latter_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq) return list_entry(rq->queuelist.next, struct request, queuelist); } -static int noop_init_queue(struct request_queue *q) +static int noop_init_queue(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_type *e) { struct noop_data *nd; + struct elevator_queue *eq; + + eq = elevator_alloc(q, e); + if (!eq) + return -ENOMEM; nd = kmalloc_node(sizeof(*nd), GFP_KERNEL, q->node); - if (!nd) + if (!nd) { + kobject_put(&eq->kobj); return -ENOMEM; + } + eq->elevator_data = nd; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nd->queue); - q->elevator->elevator_data = nd; + + spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock); + q->elevator = eq; + spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock); return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3