On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 02:41:06PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > There is no need to initialize the cgroup code before the disk is marked > live. Moving the cgroup initialization earlier will help to have a > fully initialized struct device in the gendisk for the cgroup code to > use in the future. Similarly tear the cgroup information down in > del_gendisk to be symmetric and because none of the cgroup tracking is > needed once non-passthrough I/O stops. > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@xxxxxxx> > --- > block/genhd.c | 17 +++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c > index 23cf83b3331cde..705dec0800d62e 100644 > --- a/block/genhd.c > +++ b/block/genhd.c > @@ -466,10 +466,14 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, > */ > pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(ddev, true); > > - ret = blk_integrity_add(disk); > + ret = blkcg_init_disk(disk); > if (ret) > goto out_del_block_link; > > + ret = blk_integrity_add(disk); > + if (ret) > + goto out_blkcg_exit; > + > disk->part0->bd_holder_dir = > kobject_create_and_add("holders", &ddev->kobj); > if (!disk->part0->bd_holder_dir) { > @@ -534,6 +538,8 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk, > kobject_put(disk->part0->bd_holder_dir); > out_del_integrity: > blk_integrity_del(disk); > +out_blkcg_exit: > + blkcg_exit_disk(disk); > out_del_block_link: > if (!sysfs_deprecated) > sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(ddev)); > @@ -662,6 +668,8 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk) > rq_qos_exit(q); > blk_mq_unquiesce_queue(q); > > + blkcg_exit_disk(disk); This patch causes kernel panic: [ 581.975121] bio_associate_blkg+0x28/0x60 [ 581.975798] bio_init+0x6d/0xc0 [ 581.976364] blkdev_issue_flush+0x21/0x40 [ 581.977021] ? _raw_write_unlock+0x12/0x30 [ 581.977686] ? jbd2_journal_start_commit+0x4b/0x80 [ 581.978418] ext4_sync_fs+0x1c6/0x1d0 [ 581.979062] sync_filesystem+0x77/0x90 [ 581.979883] generic_shutdown_super+0x22/0x130 [ 581.980773] kill_block_super+0x21/0x50 [ 581.981622] deactivate_locked_super+0x2c/0xa0 [ 581.982306] cleanup_mnt+0xbd/0x150 because disk->root_blkg is freed & set as NULL in del_gendisk(). by the following script: modprobe -r scsi_debug modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=1024 mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sdc #suppose sdc is the scsi debug disk mount /dev/sdc /mnt echo 1 > /sys/block/sdc/device/delete sleep 1 umount /mnt Thanks, Ming