From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> iocost is initialized when it's configured the first time, and iocost initializing can race with del_gendisk(), which will cause null pointer dereference: t1 t2 ioc_qos_write blk_iocost_init rq_qos_add del_gendisk rq_qos_exit //iocost is removed from q->roqs blkcg_activate_policy pd_init_fn ioc_pd_init ioc = q_to_ioc(blkg->q) //can't find iocost and return null And iolatency is about to switch to the same lazy initialization. This patchset fix this problem by synchronize rq_qos_add() and blkcg_activate_policy() with rq_qos_exit(). Yu Kuai (4): block/rq_qos: protect 'q->rq_qos' with queue_lock in rq_qos_exit() block/rq_qos: fail rq_qos_add() after del_gendisk() blk-cgroup: add a new interface blkcg_conf_close_bdev() blk-cgroup: synchronize del_gendisk() with configuring cgroup policy block/blk-cgroup.c | 12 ++++++++++-- block/blk-cgroup.h | 1 + block/blk-iocost.c | 8 ++++---- block/blk-rq-qos.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++----- block/blk-rq-qos.h | 17 +++++++++++++---- include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 + 6 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1