Right now we don't check for valid module parameter value for poll_queue, that allows user to set negative values. Add a callback to error out when poll_queue value is set < 1 before module is loaded. This fixes following message with invalid poll_queues value set more than num_online_cpus(): $echo $(nproc) 48 $ for i in `seq 45 49`; do modprobe -r null_blk modprobe null_blk poll_queues=$i echo "poll_queues = $i" dmesg -c done poll_queues = 45 blk_queue_max_hw_sectors: set to minimum 8 null_blk: disk nullb0 created null_blk: module loaded blk_queue_max_hw_sectors: set to minimum 8 null_blk: disk nullb0 created null_blk: module loaded 46 blk_queue_max_hw_sectors: set to minimum 8 null_blk: disk nullb0 created null_blk: module loaded 47 blk_queue_max_hw_sectors: set to minimum 8 null_blk: disk nullb0 created null_blk: module loaded 48 blk_queue_max_hw_sectors: set to minimum 8 null_blk: disk nullb0 created null_blk: module loaded 49 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 23 PID: 36379 at lib/group_cpus.c:400 group_cpus_evenly+0x26e/0x280 CPU: 23 PID: 36379 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W O N 6.3.0-rc1lblk+ #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:group_cpus_evenly+0x26e/0x280 Code: b1 ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 e8 20 d1 5d 00 48 8b 3c 24 e8 17 d1 5d 00 45 85 ed 0f 89 01 fe ff ff e9 f1 fd ff ff e8 b4 9d 8d ff eb ac <0f> 0b eb a8 e8 39 c4 60 00 41 bd f4 ff ff ff eb 9b cc 90 90 90 90 RSP: 0018:ffffc90000723cb8 EFLAGS: 00010297 RAX: 0000000080000000 RBX: 0000000000000031 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000030 RDI: 00000000ffffffff RBP: ffff88884b2204f0 R08: ffff88884b220bd8 R09: ffff8888c31f0000 R10: ffff88884b220bd8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8888c31f0000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000030 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f5ff6be8b80(0000) GS:ffff888fff7c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f5ff6706800 CR3: 0000000849554000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0 DR0: ffffffff843793e0 DR1: ffffffff843793e1 DR2: ffffffff843793e2 DR3: ffffffff843793e3 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600 Call Trace: <TASK> blk_mq_map_queues+0x16/0xc0 null_map_queues+0xa5/0xe0 [null_blk] blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x14d/0x3f0 ? __kmalloc+0xbc/0x130 null_add_dev.part.0+0x601/0x700 [null_blk] null_init+0x109/0xff0 [null_blk] ? __pfx_init_module+0x10/0x10 [null_blk] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x220 ? kmalloc_trace+0x25/0x90 do_init_module+0x4c/0x210 __do_sys_finit_module+0xb4/0x130 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f5ff672c15d Code: c5 0c 00 0f 05 eb a9 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d e3 7c 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffd32ca3148 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000056096285db90 RCX: 00007f5ff672c15d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000056096285df00 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000040000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000020 R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000056096285df00 R13: 000056096285dcc0 R14: 000056096285db90 R15: 000056096285df20 </TASK> ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- blk_queue_max_hw_sectors: set to minimum 8 null_blk: disk nullb0 created null_blk: module loaded Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c index 9e3df92d0b98..2d24c34ec172 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c @@ -114,8 +114,18 @@ static int g_submit_queues = 1; device_param_cb(submit_queues, &null_submit_queues_param_ops, &g_submit_queues, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(submit_queues, "Number of submission queues"); +static int null_set_poll_queues(const char *s, const struct kernel_param *kp) +{ + return null_param_store_int(s, kp->arg, 1, num_online_cpus()); +} + +static const struct kernel_param_ops null_poll_queues_param_ops = { + .set = null_set_poll_queues, + .get = param_get_int, +}; + static int g_poll_queues = 1; -module_param_named(poll_queues, g_poll_queues, int, 0444); +device_param_cb(poll_queues, &null_poll_queues_param_ops, &g_poll_queues, 0444); MODULE_PARM_DESC(poll_queues, "Number of IOPOLL submission queues"); static int g_home_node = NUMA_NO_NODE; -- 2.29.0