linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: deal with stale req count of plug list

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:10:18 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
To:     Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: deal with stale req count of plug list

On 11/16/2016 03:07 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
> In both legacy and mq path, req count of plug list is computed
> before allocating request, so the number can be stale when falling
> back to slept allocation, also the new introduced wbt can sleep
> too.
>
> This patch deals with the case by checking if plug list becomes
> empty, and fixes the KASAN report of 'BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds'
> which is introduced by Shaohua's patches of dispatching big request.

Thanks Ming, added for 4.10.

-- 
Jens Axboe