On 11/20/18 9:45 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 08:51:50AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 09:44:35AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >>> Even though .mq_kobj, ctx->kobj and q->kobj share same lifetime >>> from block layer's view, actually they don't because userspace may >>> grab one kobject anytime via sysfs. >>> >>> This patch fixes the issue by the following approach: >>> >>> 1) introduce 'struct blk_mq_ctxs' for holding .mq_kobj and managing >>> all ctxs >>> >>> 2) free all allocated ctxs and the 'blk_mq_ctxs' instance in release >>> handler of .mq_kobj >>> >>> 3) grab one ref of .mq_kobj before initializing each ctx->kobj, so that >>> .mq_kobj is always released after all ctxs are freed. >>> >>> This patch fixes kernel panic issue during booting when DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE >>> is enabled. >>> >>> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: "jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> V3: >>> - keep to allocate q->queue_ctx via percpu allocator, so one extra >>> pointer reference can be saved for getting ctx >>> V2: >>> - allocate 'blk_mq_ctx' inside blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() >>> - allocate q->mq_kobj directly >> >> Not tested, but seems sane from a kobject point-of-view: >> >> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > with v4.14.y and v4.19.y. > > The patch is marked for v4.21. I would kindly suggest to not wait for v4.21 > but apply it to v4.20. This would let us enable DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE > with syzbot on upstream and stable kernels. I'd very much like to put this into 4.21, and not 4.20, as that's much less risky. This isn't a new regression anyway, so there's no rush to put it into 4.20 as far as I'm concerned. -- Jens Axboe