Re: [PATCH v5] blk-throttle: fix race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir()

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Hello,

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 02:18:04PM +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
> Fixes: ae1188963611 ("blkcg: consolidate blkg creation in blkcg_bio_issue_check()")
> Reported-by: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx #4.3+

I'm a bit nervous about tagging it for -stable.  Given the low rate of
this actually occurring, I'm not sure the benefits outweigh the risks.
Let's at least cook it for a couple releases before sending it to
-stable.

> diff --git a/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h b/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
> index 69bea82..dccd102 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blk-cgroup.h
> @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct blkg_policy_data {
>  	/* the blkg and policy id this per-policy data belongs to */
>  	struct blkcg_gq			*blkg;
>  	int				plid;
> +	bool				offlined;
>  };

This is pure bike-shedding but offlined reads kinda weird to me, maybe
just offline would read better?  Other than that,

 Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for seeing this through.

-- 
tejun



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