linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 285/475] Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges""

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Message-Id: <20220414110903.075184556@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:11:10 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Holger Hoffstätte 
        <holger@...lied-asynchrony.com>,
        Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 285/475] Revert "Revert "block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges""

From: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>

[ Upstream commit 15729ff8143f8135b03988a100a19e66d7cb7ecd ]

A crash [1] happened to be triggered in conjunction with commit
2d52c58b9c9b ("block, bfq: honor already-setup queue merges"). The
latter was then reverted by commit ebc69e897e17 ("Revert "block, bfq:
honor already-setup queue merges""). Yet, the reverted commit was not
the one introducing the bug. In fact, it actually triggered a UAF
introduced by a different commit, and now fixed by commit d29bd41428cf
("block, bfq: reset last_bfqq_created on group change").

So, there is no point in keeping commit 2d52c58b9c9b ("block, bfq:
honor already-setup queue merges") out. This commit restores it.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214503

Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@...lied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@...aro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211125181510.15004-1-paolo.valente@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 block/bfq-iosched.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/bfq-iosched.c b/block/bfq-iosched.c
index 38c39d50ae04..1d443d17cf7c 100644
--- a/block/bfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/bfq-iosched.c
@@ -2523,6 +2523,15 @@ bfq_setup_merge(struct bfq_queue *bfqq, struct bfq_queue *new_bfqq)
 	 * are likely to increase the throughput.
 	 */
 	bfqq->new_bfqq = new_bfqq;
+	/*
+	 * The above assignment schedules the following redirections:
+	 * each time some I/O for bfqq arrives, the process that
+	 * generated that I/O is disassociated from bfqq and
+	 * associated with new_bfqq. Here we increases new_bfqq->ref
+	 * in advance, adding the number of processes that are
+	 * expected to be associated with new_bfqq as they happen to
+	 * issue I/O.
+	 */
 	new_bfqq->ref += process_refs;
 	return new_bfqq;
 }
@@ -2582,6 +2591,10 @@ bfq_setup_cooperator(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
 {
 	struct bfq_queue *in_service_bfqq, *new_bfqq;
 
+	/* if a merge has already been setup, then proceed with that first */
+	if (bfqq->new_bfqq)
+		return bfqq->new_bfqq;
+
 	/*
 	 * Do not perform queue merging if the device is non
 	 * rotational and performs internal queueing. In fact, such a
@@ -2636,9 +2649,6 @@ bfq_setup_cooperator(struct bfq_data *bfqd, struct bfq_queue *bfqq,
 	if (bfq_too_late_for_merging(bfqq))
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (bfqq->new_bfqq)
-		return bfqq->new_bfqq;
-
 	if (!io_struct || unlikely(bfqq == &bfqd->oom_bfqq))
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
2.34.1