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authorMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>2018-11-20 09:44:35 +0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-11-21 05:57:56 -0700
commit1db4909e76f64a85f4aaa187f0f683f5c85a471d (patch)
treeec08842eff41be0c4db21599a2a8954019335a30 /include/linux/blkdev.h
parent0c62bff1fd633774756be6d88d71002cd37615e0 (diff)
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blk-mq: not embed .mq_kobj and ctx->kobj into queue instance
Even though .mq_kobj, ctx->kobj and q->kobj share same lifetime from block layer's view, actually they don't because userspace may grab one kobject anytime via sysfs. This patch fixes the issue by the following approach: 1) introduce 'struct blk_mq_ctxs' for holding .mq_kobj and managing all ctxs 2) free all allocated ctxs and the 'blk_mq_ctxs' instance in release handler of .mq_kobj 3) grab one ref of .mq_kobj before initializing each ctx->kobj, so that .mq_kobj is always released after all ctxs are freed. This patch fixes kernel panic issue during booting when DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled. Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: "jianchao.wang" <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/blkdev.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index e97c0a3b2262..9b53db06ad08 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ struct request_queue {
/*
* mq queue kobject
*/
- struct kobject mq_kobj;
+ struct kobject *mq_kobj;
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
struct blk_integrity integrity;