From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] blk-cgroup: fix lost wakeup in blkg_destroy_all()
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811110421.50747-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
wake_up_var() requires a full barrier between making the wait condition
true and its lockless waitqueue check. spin_unlock_irq() has only
release semantics, so it does not order q->root_blkg = NULL against
that check.
During disk rebind, blkcg_init_disk() can therefore miss the wakeup and
sleep indefinitely. Add the required smp_mb(). Also mark the store with
WRITE_ONCE() since the waiter reads root_blkg locklessly with
READ_ONCE(). An LKMM model permits the missed-wakeup outcome without
the barrier and forbids it with the barrier.
Fixes: 3dbaacf6ab68 ("blk-cgroup: wait for blkcg cleanup before initializing new disk")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
LKMM (herdtools7 7.58), with the store modeled by WRITE_ONCE(). flag
is q->root_blkg (1 = set), lk the queue_lock, wq the var waitqueue
occupancy. To model the fixed code, insert smp_mb() in P0 between
smp_store_release(lk, 0) and READ_ONCE(*wq):
C blkcg-rebind-buggy
{ flag=1; }
P0(int *flag, int *lk, int *wq)
{
int r0;
WRITE_ONCE(*flag, 0);
smp_store_release(lk, 0);
r0 = READ_ONCE(*wq);
}
P1(int *flag, int *lk, int *wq)
{
int r1;
WRITE_ONCE(*wq, 1);
smp_mb();
r1 = READ_ONCE(*flag);
}
exists (0:r0=0 /\ 1:r1=1)
herd7 -conf linux-kernel.cfg blkcg-rebind-buggy.litmus
without smp_mb(): Sometimes
with smp_mb(): Never
block/blk-cgroup.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index d9676126c5b5d..2b3cf9caeaa31 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -604,9 +604,11 @@ static void blkg_destroy_all(struct gendisk *disk)
__clear_bit(pol->plid, q->blkcg_pols);
}
- q->root_blkg = NULL;
+ WRITE_ONCE(q->root_blkg, NULL);
spin_unlock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
+ /* Order q->root_blkg store before wake_up_var()'s waitqueue check */
+ smp_mb();
wake_up_var(&q->root_blkg);
}
--
2.53.0
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