This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
to the 3.19-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:
cfq-iosched-handle-failure-of-cfq-group-allocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 69abaffec7d47a083739b79e3066cb3730eba72e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:42:49 +0300
Subject: cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation
From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 69abaffec7d47a083739b79e3066cb3730eba72e upstream.
Cfq_lookup_create_cfqg() allocates struct blkcg_gq using GFP_ATOMIC.
In cfq_find_alloc_queue() possible allocation failure is not handled.
As a result kernel oopses on NULL pointer dereference when
cfq_link_cfqq_cfqg() calls cfqg_get() for NULL pointer.
Bug was introduced in v3.5 in commit cd1604fab4f9 ("blkcg: factor
out blkio_group creation"). Prior to that commit cfq group lookup
had returned pointer to root group as fallback.
This patch handles this error using existing fallback oom_cfqq.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: cd1604fab4f9 ("blkcg: factor out blkio_group creation")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/cfq-iosched.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -3590,6 +3590,11 @@ retry:
blkcg = bio_blkcg(bio);
cfqg = cfq_lookup_create_cfqg(cfqd, blkcg);
+ if (!cfqg) {
+ cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
cfqq = cic_to_cfqq(cic, is_sync);
/*
@@ -3626,7 +3631,7 @@ retry:
} else
cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
}
-
+out:
if (new_cfqq)
kmem_cache_free(cfq_pool, new_cfqq);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.19/proc-pagemap-walk-page-tables-under-pte-lock.patch
queue-3.19/cfq-iosched-handle-failure-of-cfq-group-allocation.patch
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