On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 07:58:52PM -0600, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Several block drivers call alloc_disk() followed by put_disk() if > something fails before device_add_disk() is called without calling > blk_cleanup_queue(). Make sure that also for this scenario a request > queue is dissociated from the cgroup controller. This patch avoids > that loading the parport_pc, paride and pf drivers triggers the > following kernel crash: > > BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in pi_init+0x42e/0x580 [paride] > Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000008 by task modprobe/744 > Call Trace: > dump_stack+0x9a/0xeb > kasan_report+0x139/0x350 > pi_init+0x42e/0x580 [paride] > pf_init+0x2bb/0x1000 [pf] > do_one_initcall+0x8e/0x405 > do_init_module+0xd9/0x2f2 > load_module+0x3ab4/0x4700 > SYSC_finit_module+0x176/0x1a0 > do_syscall_64+0xee/0x2b0 > entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7 > > Reported-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@xxxxxxxxx> > Fixes: a063057d7c73 ("block: Fix a race between request queue removal and the block cgroup controller") > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > block/blk-sysfs.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c > index f8457d6f0190..2e134da78f82 100644 > --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c > +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c > @@ -788,11 +788,37 @@ static void blk_free_queue_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head) > static void __blk_release_queue(struct work_struct *work) > { > struct request_queue *q = container_of(work, typeof(*q), release_work); > + struct blkcg_gq *gq; > > if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_POLL_STATS, &q->queue_flags)) > blk_stat_remove_callback(q, q->poll_cb); > blk_stat_free_callback(q->poll_cb); > > + if (!blk_queue_dead(q)) { > + /* > + * Last reference was dropped without having called > + * blk_cleanup_queue(). > + */ > + WARN_ONCE(blk_queue_init_done(q), > + "request queue %p has been registered but blk_cleanup_queue() has not been called for that queue\n", > + q); > + bdi_put(q->backing_dev_info); > + blkcg_exit_queue(q); > + > + if (q->elevator) { > + ioc_clear_queue(q); > + elevator_exit(q, q->elevator); > + } > + } > + > + rcu_read_lock(); > + gq = blkg_lookup(&blkcg_root, q); > + rcu_read_unlock(); > + > + WARN(gq, > + "request queue %p is being released but it has not yet been removed from the blkcg controller\n", > + q); > + > blk_free_queue_stats(q->stats); This solution is good. Thanks for fixing this! Tested-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@xxxxxxxxx> ../Alex > > blk_exit_rl(q, &q->root_rl); > -- > 2.16.2 >