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Subject[PATCH] elevator: Fix a race in elevator switching and md device initialization
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The soft lockup below happes at the boot time of the system using dm
multipath and automated elevator switching udev rules.

[ 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 and sysfs knob
to switch the scheduler.

* 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'
SyS_write -> vfs_write -> sysfs_write_file -> queue_attr_store
( mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock) here. )
-> elv_iosched_store -> elevator_change:

elevator_exit(old); // try to de-init uninitialized elevator and hang up

This patch adds acquisition of q->sysfs_lock in blk_init_allocated_queue().
This also adds the lock into elevator_change() to ensure locking from the
other path, as it is exposed function (and queue_attr_store will uses
__elevator_change() now, the non-locking version of elevator_change()).

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
---
block/blk-core.c | 6 +++++-
block/elevator.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 93a18d1..2323ec3 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -739,9 +739,13 @@ 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))
- return NULL;
+ q = 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 668394d..5232565 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ fail_init:
/*
* Switch this queue to the given IO scheduler.
*/
-int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
+static int __elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
{
char elevator_name[ELV_NAME_MAX];
struct elevator_type *e;
@@ -981,6 +981,18 @@ int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)

return elevator_switch(q, e);
}
+
+int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ /* Protect q->elevator from blk_init_allocated_queue() */
+ mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+ ret = __elevator_change(q, name);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(elevator_change);

ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name,
@@ -991,7 +1003,7 @@ ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name,
if (!q->elevator)
return count;

- ret = elevator_change(q, name);
+ ret = __elevator_change(q, name);
if (!ret)
return count;



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