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From: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: pop cached rq before potentially blocking rq_qos_throttle()
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:56:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220623085559.csg72pmamhwgkcbx@shindev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <65187802-413a-7425-234e-68cf0b281a91@kernel.dk>

On Jun 21, 2022 / 10:07, Jens Axboe wrote:
> If rq_qos_throttle() ends up blocking, then we will have invalidated and
> flushed our current plug. Since blk_mq_get_cached_request() hasn't
> popped the cached request off the plug list just yet, we end holding a
> pointer to a request that is no longer valid. This insta-crashes with
> rq->mq_hctx being NULL in the validity checks just after.
> 
> Pop the request off the cached list before doing rq_qos_throttle() to
> avoid using a potentially stale request.
> 
> Fixes: 0a5aa8d161d1 ("block: fix blk_mq_attempt_bio_merge and rq_qos_throttle protection")
> Reported-by: Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Thank you for the fix and sorry for the trouble. The patch passed my test set:

Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>


BTW, may I know the workload or script which triggers the failure? I'm
interested in if we can add a blktests test case to exercises qos throttle
and prevent similar bugs in the future.

-- 
Shin'ichiro Kawasaki

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-23  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-21 16:07 [PATCH] block: pop cached rq before potentially blocking rq_qos_throttle() Jens Axboe
2022-06-21 16:58 ` Dylan Yudaken
2022-06-23  8:56 ` Shinichiro Kawasaki [this message]
2022-06-23 12:05   ` Jens Axboe
2022-06-23 12:33     ` Shinichiro Kawasaki

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