[PATCH 1/4] Fix race between starved list and device removal

Bart Van Assche
2013-07-02T13:05:27Z

From: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>

scsi_run_queue() examines all SCSI devices that are present on
the starved list. Since scsi_run_queue() unlocks the SCSI host
lock a SCSI device can get removed after it has been removed
from the starved list and before its queue is run. Protect
against that race condition by holding a reference on the
queue while running it.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/2/96
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index 86d5220..df8bd5a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -434,6 +434,8 @@ static void scsi_run_queue(struct request_queue *q)
list_splice_init(&shost->starved_list, &starved_list);

while (!list_empty(&starved_list)) {
+ struct request_queue *slq;
+
/*
* As long as shost is accepting commands and we have
* starved queues, call blk_run_queue. scsi_request_fn
@@ -456,11 +458,25 @@ static void scsi_run_queue(struct request_queue *q)
continue;
}

- spin_unlock(shost->host_lock);
- spin_lock(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock);
- __blk_run_queue(sdev->request_queue);
- spin_unlock(sdev->request_queue->queue_lock);
- spin_lock(shost->host_lock);
+ /*
+ * Once we drop the host lock, a racing scsi_remove_device()
+ * call may remove the sdev from the starved list and destroy
+ * it and the queue. Mitigate by taking a reference to the
+ * queue and never touching the sdev again after we drop the
+ * host lock. Note: if __scsi_remove_device() invokes
+ * blk_cleanup_queue() before the queue is run from this
+ * function then blk_run_queue() will return immediately since
+ * blk_cleanup_queue() marks the queue with QUEUE_FLAG_DYING.
+ */
+ slq = sdev->request_queue;
+ if (!blk_get_queue(slq))
+ continue;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(shost->host_lock, flags);
+
+ blk_run_queue(slq);
+ blk_put_queue(slq);
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
}
/* put any unprocessed entries back */
list_splice(&starved_list, &shost->starved_list);
--
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