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author | Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> | 2019-09-23 23:12:09 +0800 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2019-09-26 00:45:51 -0600 |
commit | b89f625e28d44552083f43752f62d8621ded0a04 (patch) | |
tree | 473504d2f44f9ec2ff427649a8434b2faccec793 /block/blk-stat.c | |
parent | 284b94be1925dbe035ce5218d8b5c197321262c7 (diff) | |
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block: don't release queue's sysfs lock during switching elevator
cecf5d87ff20 ("block: split .sysfs_lock into two locks") starts to
release & acquire sysfs_lock before registering/un-registering elevator
queue during switching elevator for avoiding potential deadlock from
showing & storing 'queue/iosched' attributes and removing elevator's
kobject.
Turns out there isn't such deadlock because 'q->sysfs_lock' isn't
required in .show & .store of queue/iosched's attributes, and just
elevator's sysfs lock is acquired in elv_iosched_store() and
elv_iosched_show(). So it is safe to hold queue's sysfs lock when
registering/un-registering elevator queue.
The biggest issue is that commit cecf5d87ff20 assumes that concurrent
write on 'queue/scheduler' can't happen. However, this assumption isn't
true, because kernfs_fop_write() only guarantees that concurrent write
aren't called on the same open file, but the write could be from
different open on the file. So we can't release & re-acquire queue's
sysfs lock during switching elevator, otherwise use-after-free on
elevator could be triggered.
Fixes the issue by not releasing queue's sysfs lock during switching
elevator.
Fixes: cecf5d87ff20 ("block: split .sysfs_lock into two locks")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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