From: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
To: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hch@lst.de, ming.lei@redhat.com, hare@suse.de, axboe@kernel.dk,
dlemoal@kernel.org, johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com, gjoyce@ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] null_blk: fix set->driver_data while setting up tagset
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:05:42 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250720113553.913034-3-nilay@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250720113553.913034-1-nilay@linux.ibm.com>
When setting up a null block device, we initialize a tagset that
includes a driver_data field—typically used by block drivers to
store a pointer to driver-specific data. In the case of null_blk,
this should point to the struct nullb instance.
However, due to recent tagset refactoring in the null_blk driver, we
missed initializing driver_data when creating a shared tagset. As a
result, software queues (ctx) fail to map correctly to new hardware
queues (hctx). For example, increasing the number of submit queues
triggers an nr_hw_queues update, which invokes null_map_queues() to
remap queues. Since set->driver_data is unset, null_map_queues()
fails to map any ctx to the new hctxs, leading to hctx->nr_ctx == 0,
effectively making the hardware queues unusable for I/O.
This patch fixes the issue by ensuring that set->driver_data is properly
initialized to point to the struct nullb during tagset setup.
Fixes: 72ca28765fc4 ("null_blk: refactor tag_set setup")
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
index aa163ae9b2aa..9e1c4ce6fc42 100644
--- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
@@ -1854,13 +1854,14 @@ static int null_init_global_tag_set(void)
static int null_setup_tagset(struct nullb *nullb)
{
+ nullb->tag_set->driver_data = nullb;
+
if (nullb->dev->shared_tags) {
nullb->tag_set = &tag_set;
return null_init_global_tag_set();
}
nullb->tag_set = &nullb->__tag_set;
- nullb->tag_set->driver_data = nullb;
nullb->tag_set->nr_hw_queues = nullb->dev->submit_queues;
nullb->tag_set->queue_depth = nullb->dev->hw_queue_depth;
nullb->tag_set->numa_node = nullb->dev->home_node;
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-20 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-20 11:35 [PATCH 0/2] fix sbitmap initialization and null_blk tagset setup Nilay Shroff
2025-07-20 11:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] lib/sbitmap: fix kernel crash observed when sbitmap depth is zero Nilay Shroff
2025-07-21 7:15 ` Hannes Reinecke
2025-07-21 13:02 ` Damien Le Moal
2025-07-20 11:35 ` Nilay Shroff [this message]
2025-07-21 7:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] null_blk: fix set->driver_data while setting up tagset Hannes Reinecke
2025-07-21 13:04 ` Damien Le Moal
2025-07-21 13:37 ` Nilay Shroff
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