elevator can be tore down by sysfs switch interface or disk release, so hold ->sysfs_lock before referring to q->elevator, then potential use-after-free can be avoided. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-mq.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c index e9bf950983c7..22a89c758f70 100644 --- a/block/blk-mq.c +++ b/block/blk-mq.c @@ -4438,12 +4438,14 @@ static bool blk_mq_elv_switch_none(struct list_head *head, if (!qe) return false; + /* q->elevator needs protection from ->sysfs_lock */ + mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&qe->node); qe->q = q; qe->type = q->elevator->type; list_add(&qe->node, head); - mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock); /* * After elevator_switch_mq, the previous elevator_queue will be * released by elevator_release. The reference of the io scheduler -- 2.31.1
