The current linux-block, 4.18 and 4.17 can reliably be crashed within few minutes by running the following bash snippet: mkfs.ext4 -v /dev/sda3 && mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/test/ -t ext4; while true; do mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/; echo $$ >/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/cgroup.procs; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/test-$(( RANDOM * 10 / 32768 )) bs=1M count=1024 & echo $$ >/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/cgroup.procs; sleep 1; kill -KILL $!; wait $!; rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test; done # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler noop [cfq] # cat /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational 1 # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/cgroup.subtree_control cpu io memory pids The backtraces vary but often they are NULL pointer dereferences due to various cfqq fields being NULL. Or BUG_ON(cfqq->ref <= 0) in cfq_put_queue() triggers due to cfqq reference count being zero. Bisection points at commit 4c6994806f70 ("blk-throttle: fix race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir()"). The prime suspect looked like .pd_offline_fn() method being called multiple times, but from analyzing the mentioned commit this didn't seem possible and runtime trials have confirmed that. However, CFQ's cfq_pd_offline() implementation of the above method were leaving queue pointers intact in cfqg after unpinning them. After making sure that they are cleared to NULL in this function I can no longer reproduce the crash. Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4c6994806f70 ("blk-throttle: fix race between blkcg_bio_issue_check() and cgroup_rmdir()"). Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index 2eb87444b157..ed41aa978c4a 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -1644,14 +1644,20 @@ static void cfq_pd_offline(struct blkg_policy_data *pd) int i; for (i = 0; i < IOPRIO_BE_NR; i++) { - if (cfqg->async_cfqq[0][i]) + if (cfqg->async_cfqq[0][i]) { cfq_put_queue(cfqg->async_cfqq[0][i]); - if (cfqg->async_cfqq[1][i]) + cfqg->async_cfqq[0][i] = NULL; + } + if (cfqg->async_cfqq[1][i]) { cfq_put_queue(cfqg->async_cfqq[1][i]); + cfqg->async_cfqq[1][i] = NULL; + } } - if (cfqg->async_idle_cfqq) + if (cfqg->async_idle_cfqq) { cfq_put_queue(cfqg->async_idle_cfqq); + cfqg->async_idle_cfqq = NULL; + } /* * @blkg is going offline and will be ignored by