linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block: make elevator_get robust against cross blk/blk-mq choice

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:09:00 -0800
From:   Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To:     Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ulf.hansson@...aro.org, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
        broonie@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block: make elevator_get robust against cross
 blk/blk-mq choice

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:01:07PM +0100, Paolo Valente wrote:
> If, at boot, a legacy I/O scheduler is chosen for a device using blk-mq,
> or, viceversa, a blk-mq scheduler is chosen for a device using blk, then
> that scheduler is set and initialized without any check, driving the
> system into an inconsistent state. This commit addresses this issue by
> letting elevator_get fail for these wrong cross choices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
> ---
>  block/elevator.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Hey, Paolo,

How exactly are you triggering this? In __elevator_change(), we do check
for mq or not mq:

	if (!e->uses_mq && q->mq_ops) {
		elevator_put(e);
		return -EINVAL;
	}
	if (e->uses_mq && !q->mq_ops) {
		elevator_put(e);
		return -EINVAL;
	}

We don't ever appear to call elevator_init() with a specific scheduler
name, and for the default we switch off of q->mq_ops and use the
defaults from Kconfig:

	if (q->mq_ops && q->nr_hw_queues == 1)
		e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_SQ_IOSCHED, false);
	else if (q->mq_ops)
		e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_MQ_IOSCHED, false);
	else
		e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED, false);

	if (!e) {
		printk(KERN_ERR
			"Default I/O scheduler not found. " \
			"Using noop/none.\n");
		e = elevator_get("noop", false);
	}

So I guess this could happen if someone manually changed those Kconfig
options, but I don't see what other case would make this happen, could
you please explain?