[34-longterm 089/179] cfq-iosched: fix a rcu warning

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Mon May 14 2012 - 22:54:07 EST


From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 3181faa85bda3dc3f5e630a1846526c9caaa38e3 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/cfq-iosched.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 510552a..d39a07a 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -2559,11 +2559,14 @@ static void __cfq_exit_single_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd,
cic->dead_key = (unsigned long) cic->key;
cic->key = NULL;

+ 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]);
--
1.7.9.6

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