[dm-devel] block: avoid unconditionally freeing previously allocated request_queue
Mike Snitzer
snitzer at redhat.com
Wed May 26 04:47:03 UTC 2010
On Tue, May 25 2010 at 10:37pm -0400,
Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda at ct.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On 05/26/2010 01:34 AM +0900, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda at ct.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >>>> +/*
> >>>> + * Fully initialize a request-based queue (->elevator, ->request_fn, etc).
> >>>> + */
> >>>> +static int dm_init_request_based_queue(struct mapped_device *md)
> >>>> +{
> >>>> + struct request_queue *q = NULL;
> >>>> +
> >>>> + /* Avoid re-initializing the queue if already fully initialized */
> >>>> + if (!md->queue->elevator) {
> >>>> + /* Fully initialize the queue */
> >>>> + q = blk_init_allocated_queue(md->queue, dm_request_fn, NULL);
> >>>> + if (!q)
> >>>> + return 0;
> >>>
> >>> When blk_init_allocated_queue() fails, the block-layer seems not to
> >>> guarantee that the queue is still available.
> >>
> >> Ouch, yes this portion of blk_init_allocated_queue_node() is certainly
> >> problematic:
> >>
> >> if (blk_init_free_list(q)) {
> >> kmem_cache_free(blk_requestq_cachep, q);
> >> return NULL;
> >> }
>
> Not only that. The blk_put_queue() in blk_init_allocated_queue_node()
> will also free the queue:
>
> if (!elevator_init(q, NULL)) {
> blk_queue_congestion_threshold(q);
> return q;
> }
>
> blk_put_queue(q);
> return NULL;
OK, I'll post v2 that addresses this and we'll see what Jens says.
Mike
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