linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: queue lock must be acquired when iterating over rls

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Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:31:53 -0800
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: queue lock must be acquired when iterating over
 rls

On 01/31/2017 10:36 PM, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> blk_set_queue_dying() does not acquire queue lock before it calls
> blk_queue_for_each_rl(). This allows a racing blkg_destroy() to
> remove blkg->q_node from the linked list and have
> blk_queue_for_each_rl() loop infitely over the removed blkg->q_node
> list node.

Thanks, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe