Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: move bio merge attempt to blk_mq_submit_bio()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Aug 12 2022 - 08:40:44 EST


On 8/12/22 2:39 AM, Chengming Zhou wrote:
> We will try to get request from cache before alloc request, in
> both cases will first attempt bio merge.
>
> This patch move this common part to blk_mq_submit_bio(), which
> simplify the code and avoid passing in the pointer of bio.

I don't think this will work. If we get a cached request, then we
know we have a reference to the queue. If you swap these around,
then that's no longer the case and we can have a use-after-free if
the queue goes away.

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Jens Axboe