Hey Ming Lei, On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:06:35AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Hi, > > When one request is dispatched to LLD via dm-rq, if the result is > BLK_STS_*RESOURCE, dm-rq will free the request. However, LLD may allocate > private data for this request, so this way will cause memory leak. I am confused about this. Probably because I am not up-to-date with all of blk-mq. But if you free the LLD private data before the request is finished, what is the LLD doing if the request finishes afterwards? Would that not be an automatic use-after-free? > > Add .cleanup_rq() callback and implement it in SCSI for fixing the issue, > since SCSI is the only driver which allocates private requst data in > .queue_rq() path. > > Another use case of this callback is to free the request and re-submit > bios during cpu hotplug when the hctx is dead, see the following link: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/f122e8f2-5ede-2d83-9ca0-bc713ce66d01@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#t > > V2: > - run .cleanup_rq() in blk_mq_free_request(), as suggested by Mike -- With Best Regards, Benjamin Block / Linux on IBM Z Kernel Development IBM Systems & Technology Group / IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitz. AufsR.: Matthias Hartmann / Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen / Registergericht: AmtsG Stuttgart, HRB 243294
