Commit bc188d81 authored Mar 18, 2015 by Sam Bradshaw Committed by Jens Axboe Mar 18, 2015

blkmq: Fix NULL pointer deref when all reserved tags in



When allocating from the reserved tags pool, bt_get() is called with
a NULL hctx.  If all tags are in use, the hw queue is kicked to push
out any pending IO, potentially freeing tags, and tag allocation is
retried.  The problem is that blk_mq_run_hw_queue() doesn't check for
a NULL hctx.  So we avoid it with a simple NULL hctx test.

Tested by hammering mtip32xx with concurrent smartctl/hdparm.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Fixes: b3223207 ("blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get()")
Cc: stable@kernel.org

Added appropriate comment.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

parent 9a30b096

block/blk-mq-tag.c

+4 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -278,8 +278,10 @@ static int bt_get(struct blk_mq_alloc_data *data,
		/*
		* We're out of tags on this hardware queue, kick any
		* pending IO submits before going to sleep waiting for
		* some to complete.
		* some to complete. Note that hctx can be NULL here for
		* reserved tag allocation.
		*/
		if (hctx)
		blk_mq_run_hw_queue(hctx, false);

		/*

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