Re: [PATCH -next v2 9/9] blk-iocost: fix walk_list corruption

From: Yu Kuai
Date: Mon Dec 05 2022 - 04:35:38 EST


Hi, Tejun

在 2022/12/01 4:59, Tejun Heo 写道:
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:21:56PM +0800, Li Nan wrote:
From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Our test report a problem:

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list_del corruption. next->prev should be ffff888127e0c4b0, but was ffff888127e090b0
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3117789 at lib/list_debug.c:62 __list_del_entry_valid+0x119/0x130
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x119/0x130
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x119/0x130
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
iocg_flush_stat.isra.0+0x11e/0x230
? ioc_rqos_done+0x230/0x230
? ioc_now+0x14f/0x180
ioc_timer_fn+0x569/0x1640

We haven't reporduced it yet, but we think this is due to parent iocg is
freed before child iocg, and then in ioc_timer_fn, walk_list is
corrupted.

1) Remove child cgroup can concurrent with remove parent cgroup, and
ioc_pd_free for parent iocg can be called before child iocg. This can be
fixed by moving the handle of walk_list to ioc_pd_offline, since that
offline from child is ensured to be called before parent.

Which you already did in a previous patch, right?

2) ioc_pd_free can be triggered from both removing device and removing
cgroup, this patch fix the problem by deleting timer before deactivating
policy, so that free parent iocg first in this case won't matter.

Okay, so, yeah, css's pin parents but blkg's don't. I think the right thing
to do here is making sure that a child blkg pins its parent (and eventually
ioc).

Sorry about this, actually it's can be ensured that pd_offline
from child will be called before parent. Hence just moving he handle of
walk_list to ioc_pd_offline can fix this problem thoroughly.

Thanks,
Kuai