This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
to the 3.4-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:
elevator-acquire-q-sysfs_lock-in-elevator_change.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7c8a3679e3d8e9d92d58f282161760a0e247df97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:42:19 -0600
Subject: elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
From: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx>
commit 7c8a3679e3d8e9d92d58f282161760a0e247df97 upstream.
Add locking of q->sysfs_lock into elevator_change() (an exported function)
to ensure it is held to protect q->elevator from elevator_init(), even if
elevator_change() is called from non-sysfs paths.
sysfs path (elv_iosched_store) uses __elevator_change(), non-locking
version, as the lock is already taken by elv_iosched_store().
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/elevator.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ fail_register:
/*
* Switch this queue to the given IO scheduler.
*/
-int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
+static int __elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
{
char elevator_name[ELV_NAME_MAX];
struct elevator_type *e;
@@ -983,6 +983,18 @@ int elevator_change(struct request_queue
return elevator_switch(q, e);
}
+
+int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ /* Protect q->elevator from elevator_init() */
+ mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+ ret = __elevator_change(q, name);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
+ return ret;
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(elevator_change);
ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name,
@@ -993,7 +1005,7 @@ ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request
if (!q->elevator)
return count;
- ret = elevator_change(q, name);
+ ret = __elevator_change(q, name);
if (!ret)
return count;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/elevator-acquire-q-sysfs_lock-in-elevator_change.patch
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