On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 09:44:35AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Even though .mq_kobj, ctx->kobj and q->kobj share same lifetime
> from block layer's view, actually they don't because userspace may
> grab one kobject anytime via sysfs.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue by the following approach:
> 
> 1) introduce 'struct blk_mq_ctxs' for holding .mq_kobj and managing
> all ctxs
> 
> 2) free all allocated ctxs and the 'blk_mq_ctxs' instance in release
> handler of .mq_kobj
> 
> 3) grab one ref of .mq_kobj before initializing each ctx->kobj, so that
> .mq_kobj is always released after all ctxs are freed.
> 
> This patch fixes kernel panic issue during booting when DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
> is enabled.
> 
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
> Cc: "jianchao.wang" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
> ---
> V3:
>       - keep to allocate q->queue_ctx via percpu allocator, so one extra
>         pointer reference can be saved for getting ctx
> V2:
>       - allocate 'blk_mq_ctx' inside blk_mq_init_allocated_queue()
>       - allocate q->mq_kobj directly 

Not tested, but seems sane from a kobject point-of-view:

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Reply via email to