Re: [PATCH V4 1/7] blk-mq: grab .q_usage_counter when queuing request from plug code path

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 16:43 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Just like aio/io_uring, we need to grab 2 refcount for queuing one
> request, one is for submission, another is for completion.
> 
> If the request isn't queued from plug code path, the refcount grabbed
> in generic_make_request() serves for submission. In theroy, this
> refcount should have been released after the sumission(async run queue)
> is done. blk_freeze_queue() works with blk_sync_queue() together
> for avoiding race between cleanup queue and IO submission, given async
> run queue activities are canceled because hctx->run_work is scheduled with
> the refcount held, so it is fine to not hold the refcount when
> running the run queue work function for dispatch IO.
> 
> However, if request is staggered into plug list, and finally queued
> from plug code path, the refcount in submission side is actually missed.
> And we may start to run queue after queue is removed because the queue's
> kobject refcount isn't guaranteed to be grabbed in flushing plug list
> context, then kernel oops is triggered, see the following race:
> 
> blk_mq_flush_plug_list():
>         blk_mq_sched_insert_requests()
>                 insert requests to sw queue or scheduler queue
>                 blk_mq_run_hw_queue
> 
> Because of concurrent run queue, all requests inserted above may be
> completed before calling the above blk_mq_run_hw_queue. Then queue can
> be freed during the above blk_mq_run_hw_queue().
> 
> Fixes the issue by grab .q_usage_counter before calling
> blk_mq_sched_insert_requests() in blk_mq_flush_plug_list(). This way is
> safe because the queue is absolutely alive before inserting request.
> 
> Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
> Cc: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
> Cc: Martin K . Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
> Cc: James E . J . Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
> Cc: jianchao wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/blk-mq.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index 3ff3d7b49969..5b586affee09 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -1728,9 +1728,12 @@ void blk_mq_flush_plug_list(struct blk_plug *plug, bool from_schedule)
>                 if (rq->mq_hctx != this_hctx || rq->mq_ctx != this_ctx) {
>                         if (this_hctx) {
>                                 trace_block_unplug(this_q, depth, !from_schedule);
> +
> +                               percpu_ref_get(&this_q->q_usage_counter);
>                                 blk_mq_sched_insert_requests(this_hctx, this_ctx,
>                                                                 &rq_list,
>                                                                 from_schedule);
> +                               percpu_ref_put(&this_q->q_usage_counter);
>                         }
>  
>                         this_q = rq->q;
> @@ -1749,8 +1752,11 @@ void blk_mq_flush_plug_list(struct blk_plug *plug, bool from_schedule)
>          */
>         if (this_hctx) {
>                 trace_block_unplug(this_q, depth, !from_schedule);
> +
> +               percpu_ref_get(&this_q->q_usage_counter);
>                 blk_mq_sched_insert_requests(this_hctx, this_ctx, &rq_list,
>                                                 from_schedule);
> +               percpu_ref_put(&this_q->q_usage_counter);
>         }
>  }

Although this patch looks fine to me: have you considered to insert one
percpu_ref_get() call at the start of blk_mq_flush_plug_list() and one
percpu_ref_put() call at the end of the same function?

Thanks,

Bart.