cfq-iosched: fix RCU race in the cfq io_context destructor handling

put_io_context() drops the RCU read lock before calling into cfq_dtor(), however we need to hold off freeing there before grabbing and dereferencing the first object on the list. So extend the rcu_read_lock() scope to cover the calling of cfq_dtor(), and optimize cfq_free_io_context() to use a new variant for call_for_each_cic() that assumes the RCU read lock is already held. Hit in the wild by Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
josf · May 7, 2008 · 07416d2 · 07416d2
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diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ int put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		if (ioc->aic && ioc->aic->dtor)
 			ioc->aic->dtor(ioc->aic);
-		rcu_read_unlock();
 		cfq_dtor(ioc);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		kmem_cache_free(iocontext_cachep, ioc);
 		return 1;

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -1142,19 +1142,26 @@ static void cfq_put_queue(struct cfq_queue *cfqq)
 	kmem_cache_free(cfq_pool, cfqq);
 }
 
+static void
+__call_for_each_cic(struct io_context *ioc,
+		    void (*func)(struct io_context *, struct cfq_io_context *))
+{
+	struct cfq_io_context *cic;
+	struct hlist_node *n;
+
+	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(cic, n, &ioc->cic_list, cic_list)
+		func(ioc, cic);
+}
+
 /*
  * Call func for each cic attached to this ioc.
  */
 static void
 call_for_each_cic(struct io_context *ioc,
 		  void (*func)(struct io_context *, struct cfq_io_context *))
 {
-	struct cfq_io_context *cic;
-	struct hlist_node *n;
-
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(cic, n, &ioc->cic_list, cic_list)
-		func(ioc, cic);
+	__call_for_each_cic(ioc, func);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
@@ -1198,7 +1205,7 @@ static void cfq_free_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
 	 * should be ok to iterate over the known list, we will see all cic's
 	 * since no new ones are added.
 	 */
-	call_for_each_cic(ioc, cic_free_func);
+	__call_for_each_cic(ioc, cic_free_func);
 }
 
 static void cfq_exit_cfqq(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct cfq_queue *cfqq)