Re: [BUG report] WARNING of sysfs in __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues()

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在 2025/2/28 15:13, Nilay Shroff 写道:


On 2/28/25 7:52 AM, Li Nan wrote:
Hi,

In __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(), we don't check the return value of
blk_mq_sysfs_register_hctxs(). When sysfs creation fails, there's no
proper error handling. This leads to a kernel warning during subsequent
__blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues() calls or disk removal:

```
kernfs: can not remove 'nr_tags', no directory
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 805 at fs/kernfs/dir.c:1703 kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x12e/0x140
Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  remove_files+0x39/0xb0
  sysfs_remove_group+0x48/0xf0
  sysfs_remove_groups+0x31/0x60
  __kobject_del+0x23/0xf0
  kobject_del+0x17/0x40
  blk_mq_unregister_hctx+0x5d/0x80
  blk_mq_sysfs_unregister_hctxs+0x89/0xd0
  blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x31c/0x820
  nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xe0 [null_blk]
  nullb_device_submit_queues_store+0xa4/0x130 [null_blk]
```

Should we add error checking for blk_mq_sysfs_register_hctxs() and
propagate the error to abort the update operation when it fails? This
would prevent subsequent operations from hitting invalid sysfs entries.

IMO, yes error checking should be added here. However it will be tricky
to undo everything as the error might have happened deep inside loop. We
need to carefully delete all sysfs objects added under each hctx->kobj.
BTW, typically, we don't abort the nr_hw_queue update operation but
instead fallback to the previously configured number of hw queues.

Thanks,
--Nilay

.

Yes, this is troublesome and cannot simply return an error because the old
kobj has already been released, and re-alloc is likely to fail again due to
insufficient memory.

--
Thanks,
Nan





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