From: Keith Busch <kbusch@meta.com>
To: <axboe@kernel.dk>, <hch@lst.de>, <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] blk-mq: recover from stale cached request in blk_mq_submit_bio
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:45:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424184551.1540062-1-kbusch@meta.com> (raw)
From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
When submitting a bio to blk-mq, if the task should sleep after peeking
a cached request, but before it pops it, the plug is flushed and calls
blk_mq_free_plug_rqs, freeing the cached_rqs.
The code had already warned of this possibility, and specifically popped
the request before other known blocking calls, but it didn't handle a
blocking GFP_NOIO alloc. Allocating the split bio or the integrity
payload are two such cases that can block under high memory pressure.
The blk-mq submit_bio function continues with the peeked request that
was just freed and re-initialized, so the driver receives that request
with a NULL'ed mq_hctx, and inevitably panics.
Relevant kernel messages if you should encounter this condition, where
the "WARNING" is the harbinger of the panic about to happen:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 80820 at block/blk-mq.c:3071 blk_mq_submit_bio+0x2cf/0x5b0
...
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000100
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 6b367b067 P4D 6b367b067 PUD 6bb5eb067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 4 UID: 36666 PID: 80820 Comm: IOUringThread0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S W 6.16.1-0_fbk3_0_gd6c130b80483 #1 NONE
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A23 12/08/2020
RIP: 0010:nvme_queue_rqs+0x93/0x180
Code: 44 24 48 00 00 00 00 4d 85 f6 74 19 49 8b 44 24 10 4c 3b b0 00 01 00 00 74 0b 4c 89 f7 4c 89 fe e8 c2 62 cd ff 49 8b 44 24 10 <4c> 8b b0 00 01 00 00 49 f7 46 78 01 00 00 00 74 1a 49 8b 3e 8b 8f
RSP: 0018:ffffc9004a8f34a8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888c12b92920 RCX: 0000000000000020
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff888c12b92920
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000000000000000b R09: ffffffffffffffff
R10: 0000000000092800 R11: 000000000002e000 R12: ffff88828e325c00
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc9004a8f34a8
FS: 00007f7cf30e6640(0000) GS:ffff8890fa908000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000100 CR3: 00000006bb387006 CR4: 00000000007726f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
blk_mq_dispatch_queue_requests+0x46/0x120
blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x38/0x130
blk_add_rq_to_plug+0xa2/0x160
blk_mq_submit_bio+0x3ab/0x5b0
__submit_bio+0x3a/0x260
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0xc6/0x2b0
btrfs_submit_bbio+0x14d/0x520
? btrfs_get_extent+0x43f/0x640
submit_extent_folio+0x31f/0x340
btrfs_do_readpage+0x2d7/0xac0
btrfs_readahead+0x142/0x200
? clear_state_bit+0x520/0x520
read_pages+0x57/0x200
? folio_alloc_noprof+0x10c/0x310
page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x28c/0x480
? asm_sysvec_call_function+0x16/0x20
? blk_cgroup_congested+0xa/0x50
? page_cache_sync_ra+0x41/0x2d0
filemap_get_pages+0x347/0xd50
filemap_read+0xd3/0x500
? 0xffffffff81000000
__io_read+0x111/0x440
io_read+0x23/0x90
__io_issue_sqe+0x40/0x120
io_issue_sqe+0x3f/0x3a0
io_submit_sqes+0x2bd/0x790
__se_sys_io_uring_enter+0x100/0xc10
? eventfd_read+0x100/0x1f0
? futex_wake+0x1b9/0x260
? syscall_trace_enter+0x34/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x6a/0x250
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x95d621e
Code: 8b 12 f6 c2 01 75 2a 84 c9 74 22 44 0f b6 d1 41 09 c2 8b bf cc 00 00 00 41 b9 08 00 00 00 b8 aa 01 00 00 31 d2 45 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 89 c6 89 f0 5d c3 83 c8 02 eb d5 cc cc cc cc cc cc 55 48 89 e5
RSP: 002b:00007f7cf30dc630 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001aa
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f7d18907000 RCX: 00000000095d621e
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: 00000000000004cf
RBP: 00007f7cf30dc630 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000008
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 00007f7d18907320 R15: 0000000000000009
</TASK>
Fixes: b0077e269f6c1 ("blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep()")
Fixes: 7b4f36cd22a65 ("block: ensure we hold a queue reference when using queue limits")
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
---
block/blk-mq.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 4c5c16cce4f8f..ea44bd73a94b7 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -3096,22 +3096,23 @@ static struct request *blk_mq_peek_cached_request(struct blk_plug *plug,
return rq;
}
-static void blk_mq_use_cached_rq(struct request *rq, struct blk_plug *plug,
+static bool blk_mq_use_cached_rq(struct request *rq, struct blk_plug *plug,
struct bio *bio)
{
- if (rq_list_pop(&plug->cached_rqs) != rq)
- WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
-
/*
- * If any qos ->throttle() end up blocking, we will have flushed the
- * plug and hence killed the cached_rq list as well. Pop this entry
- * before we throttle.
+ * We will have flushed the plug and hence killed the cached_rq list as
+ * well if anything had blocked. Pop this entry before we throttle if
+ * the entry is still valid.
*/
+ if (rq_list_pop(&plug->cached_rqs) != rq)
+ return false;
+
rq_qos_throttle(rq->q, bio);
blk_mq_rq_time_init(rq, blk_time_get_ns());
rq->cmd_flags = bio->bi_opf;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rq->queuelist);
+ return true;
}
static bool bio_unaligned(const struct bio *bio, struct request_queue *q)
@@ -3211,8 +3212,13 @@ void blk_mq_submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
new_request:
if (rq) {
- blk_mq_use_cached_rq(rq, plug, bio);
- } else {
+ if (!blk_mq_use_cached_rq(rq, plug, bio)) {
+ rq = NULL;
+ if (unlikely(bio_queue_enter(bio)))
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+ if (!rq) {
rq = blk_mq_get_new_requests(q, plug, bio);
if (unlikely(!rq)) {
if (bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT)
--
2.52.0
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2026-04-30 13:09 ` [PATCH] blk-mq: recover from stale cached request in blk_mq_submit_bio Christoph Hellwig
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