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Subject[patch 32/33] cfq-iosched: fix alias + front merge bug
-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

There's a really rare and obscure bug in CFQ, that causes a crash in
cfq_dispatch_insert() due to rq == NULL. One example of that is seen
here:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/15/41

Neil correctly diagnosed the situation for how this can happen, read
that analysis here:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/25/57

This looks like it requires md to trigger, even though it should
potentially be possible to due with O_DIRECT (at least if you edit the
kernel and doctor some of the unplug calls).

The fix is to move the ->next_rq update to when we add a request to the
rbtree. Then we remove the possibility for a request to exist in the
rbtree code, but not have ->next_rq correctly updated.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
block/cfq-iosched.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -462,6 +462,12 @@ static void cfq_add_rq_rb(struct request

if (!cfq_cfqq_on_rr(cfqq))
cfq_add_cfqq_rr(cfqd, cfqq);
+
+ /*
+ * check if this request is a better next-serve candidate
+ */
+ cfqq->next_rq = cfq_choose_req(cfqd, cfqq->next_rq, rq);
+ BUG_ON(!cfqq->next_rq);
}

static inline void
@@ -1623,12 +1629,6 @@ cfq_rq_enqueued(struct cfq_data *cfqd, s
cfqq->meta_pending++;

/*
- * check if this request is a better next-serve candidate)) {
- */
- cfqq->next_rq = cfq_choose_req(cfqd, cfqq->next_rq, rq);
- BUG_ON(!cfqq->next_rq);
-
- /*
* we never wait for an async request and we don't allow preemption
* of an async request. so just return early
*/
--
-
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