[PATCH block/for-3.3/core] block: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() inexit_io_context()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Dec 27 2011 - 12:36:05 EST


6e736be7 "block: make ioc get/put interface more conventional and fix
race on alloction" added WARN_ON_ONCE() in exit_io_context() which
triggers if !PF_EXITING. All tasks hitting exit_io_context() from
task exit should have PF_EXITING set but task struct tearing down
after fork failure calls into the function without PF_EXITING,
triggering the condition.

WARNING: at block/blk-ioc.c:234 exit_io_context+0x40/0x92()
Pid: 17090, comm: trinity Not tainted 3.2.0-rc6-next-20111222-sasha-dirty #77
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810b69a3>] warn_slowpath_common+0x8f/0xb2
[<ffffffff810b6a77>] warn_slowpath_null+0x18/0x1a
[<ffffffff8181a7a2>] exit_io_context+0x40/0x92
[<ffffffff810b58c9>] copy_process+0x126f/0x1453
[<ffffffff810b5c1b>] do_fork+0x120/0x3e9
[<ffffffff8106242f>] sys_clone+0x26/0x28
[<ffffffff82425803>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
---[ end trace a2e4eb670b375238 ]---

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Heh, sorry about that. Forgot about fork failure path. Just removing
the WARN_ON_ONCE() should be enough. Thanks for reporting the problem.

block/blk-ioc.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
index 33fae7d..27a06e0 100644
--- a/block/blk-ioc.c
+++ b/block/blk-ioc.c
@@ -230,9 +230,6 @@ void exit_io_context(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct io_context *ioc;

- /* PF_EXITING prevents new io_context from being attached to @task */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_EXITING));
-
task_lock(task);
ioc = task->io_context;
task->io_context = NULL;
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