linux-kernel - [PATCH] cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation

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Date:	Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:42:49 +0300
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation

Cfq_lookup_create_cfqg() allocates struct blkcg_gq using GFP_ATOMIC.
In cfq_find_alloc_queue() possible allocation failure is not handled.
As a result kernel oopses on NULL pointer dereference when
cfq_link_cfqq_cfqg() calls cfqg_get() for NULL pointer.

Bug was introduced in v3.5 in commit cd1604fab4f9 ("blkcg: factor
out blkio_group creation"). Prior to that commit cfq group lookup
had returned pointer to root group as fallback.

This patch handles this error using existing fallback oom_cfqq.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
---
 block/cfq-iosched.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 6f2751d..01898a4 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -3590,6 +3590,11 @@ retry:
 
 	blkcg = bio_blkcg(bio);
 	cfqg = cfq_lookup_create_cfqg(cfqd, blkcg);
+	if (!cfqg) {
+		cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	cfqq = cic_to_cfqq(cic, is_sync);
 
 	/*
@@ -3626,7 +3631,7 @@ retry:
 		} else
 			cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
 	}
-
+out:
 	if (new_cfqq)
 		kmem_cache_free(cfq_pool, new_cfqq);
 

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