[patch 1/2]cfq-iosched: fix a rcu warning

From: Shaohua Li
Date: Mon Jun 27 2011 - 02:55:21 EST


I got a rcu warnning at boot. the ioc->ioc_data is rcu_deferenced, but
doesn't hold rcu_read_lock.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index f379943..fd566c1 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -2773,11 +2773,14 @@ static void __cfq_exit_single_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd,
smp_wmb();
cic->key = cfqd_dead_key(cfqd);

+ rcu_read_lock();
if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
spin_lock(&ioc->lock);
rcu_assign_pointer(ioc->ioc_data, NULL);
spin_unlock(&ioc->lock);
- }
+ } else
+ rcu_read_unlock();

if (cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC]) {
cfq_exit_cfqq(cfqd, cic->cfqq[BLK_RW_ASYNC]);


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