This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled block: Fix a race between blk_cleanup_queue() and timeout handling to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: block-fix-a-race-between-blk_cleanup_queue-and-timeout-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4e9b6f20828ac880dbc1fa2fdbafae779473d1af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:00:48 -0700 Subject: block: Fix a race between blk_cleanup_queue() and timeout handling From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> commit 4e9b6f20828ac880dbc1fa2fdbafae779473d1af upstream. Make sure that if the timeout timer fires after a queue has been marked "dying" that the affected requests are finished. Reported-by: chenxiang (M) <chenxiang66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: commit 287922eb0b18 ("block: defer timeouts to a workqueue") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: chenxiang (M) <chenxiang66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-core.c | 2 ++ block/blk-timeout.c | 3 --- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_stop_queue); void blk_sync_queue(struct request_queue *q) { del_timer_sync(&q->timeout); + cancel_work_sync(&q->timeout_work); if (q->mq_ops) { struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx; @@ -720,6 +721,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_no setup_timer(&q->backing_dev_info.laptop_mode_wb_timer, laptop_mode_timer_fn, (unsigned long) q); setup_timer(&q->timeout, blk_rq_timed_out_timer, (unsigned long) q); + INIT_WORK(&q->timeout_work, NULL); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->queue_head); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->timeout_list); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->icq_list); --- a/block/blk-timeout.c +++ b/block/blk-timeout.c @@ -135,8 +135,6 @@ void blk_timeout_work(struct work_struct struct request *rq, *tmp; int next_set = 0; - if (blk_queue_enter(q, true)) - return; spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags); list_for_each_entry_safe(rq, tmp, &q->timeout_list, timeout_list) @@ -146,7 +144,6 @@ void blk_timeout_work(struct work_struct mod_timer(&q->timeout, round_jiffies_up(next)); spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags); - blk_queue_exit(q); } /** Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/block-fix-a-race-between-blk_cleanup_queue-and-timeout-handling.patch