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authorTomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>2013-10-15 16:42:16 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-08 07:29:16 -0800
commitd6a5267e403642c8802e5bc59cf754ba44a8993b (patch)
tree565bc2ab446f9b594dbb8667b623314ec016d115
parentf8bf6d2085715c4326f255ad93ce32e9c4c9c550 (diff)
elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization
commit eb1c160b22655fd4ec44be732d6594fd1b1e44f4 upstream. The soft lockup below happens at the boot time of the system using dm multipath and the udev rules to switch scheduler. [ 356.127001] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [sh:483] [ 356.127001] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81072a7d>] [<ffffffff81072a7d>] lock_timer_base.isra.35+0x1d/0x50 ... [ 356.127001] Call Trace: [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff81073810>] try_to_del_timer_sync+0x20/0x70 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff8118b08a>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0x20a/0x230 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff810738b2>] del_timer_sync+0x52/0x60 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff812ece22>] cfq_exit_queue+0x32/0xf0 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff812c98df>] elevator_exit+0x2f/0x50 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff812c9f21>] elevator_change+0xf1/0x1c0 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff812caa50>] elv_iosched_store+0x20/0x50 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff812d1d09>] queue_attr_store+0x59/0xb0 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff812143f6>] sysfs_write_file+0xc6/0x140 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff811a326d>] vfs_write+0xbd/0x1e0 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff811a3ca9>] SyS_write+0x49/0xa0 [ 356.127001] [<ffffffff8164e899>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This is caused by a race between md device initialization by multipathd and shell script to switch the scheduler using sysfs. - multipathd: SyS_ioctl -> do_vfs_ioctl -> dm_ctl_ioctl -> ctl_ioctl -> table_load -> dm_setup_md_queue -> blk_init_allocated_queue -> elevator_init q->elevator = elevator_alloc(q, e); // not yet initialized - sh -c 'echo deadline > /sys/$DEVPATH/queue/scheduler': elevator_switch (in the call trace above) struct elevator_queue *old = q->elevator; q->elevator = elevator_alloc(q, new_e); elevator_exit(old); // lockup! (*) - multipathd: (cont.) err = e->ops.elevator_init_fn(q); // init fails; q->elevator is modified (*) When del_timer_sync() is called, lock_timer_base() will loop infinitely while timer->base == NULL. In this case, as timer will never initialized, it results in lockup. This patch introduces acquisition of q->sysfs_lock around elevator_init() into blk_init_allocated_queue(), to provide mutual exclusion between initialization of the q->scheduler and switching of the scheduler. This should fix this bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902012 Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--block/blk-core.c10
-rw-r--r--block/elevator.c6
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 0c611d89d74..fce4b9387f3 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -741,9 +741,17 @@ blk_init_allocated_queue(struct request_queue *q, request_fn_proc *rfn,
q->sg_reserved_size = INT_MAX;
+ /* Protect q->elevator from elevator_change */
+ mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
/* init elevator */
- if (elevator_init(q, NULL))
+ if (elevator_init(q, NULL)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
return NULL;
+ }
+
+ mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
return q;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_init_allocated_queue);
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index 2bcbd8cc14d..249cc5e1090 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
struct elevator_type *e = NULL;
int err;
+ /*
+ * q->sysfs_lock must be held to provide mutual exclusion between
+ * elevator_switch() and here.
+ */
+ lockdep_assert_held(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
if (unlikely(q->elevator))
return 0;