Plug merge calls two elevator callbacks outside queue lock -
elevator_allow_merge_fn() and elevator_bio_merged_fn(). Although
attempt_plug_merge() suggests that elevator is guaranteed to be there
through the existing request on the plug list, nothing prevents plug
merge from calling into dying or initializing elevator.
For regular merges, bypass ensures elvpriv count to reach zero, which
in turn prevents merges as all !ELVPRIV requests get REQ_SOFTBARRIER
from forced back insertion. Plug merge doesn't check ELVPRIV, and, as
the requests haven't gone through elevator insertion yet, it doesn't
have SOFTBARRIER set allowing merges on a bypassed queue.
This, for example, leads to the following crash during elevator
switch.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
IP: [<ffffffff813b34e9>] cfq_allow_merge+0x49/0xa0
PGD 112cbc067 PUD 115d5c067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU 1
Modules linked in: deadline_iosched
Pid: 819, comm: dd Not tainted 3.3.0-rc2-work+ #76 Bochs Bochs
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813b34e9>] [<ffffffff813b34e9>] cfq_allow_merge+0x49/0xa0
RSP: 0018:ffff8801143a38f8 EFLAGS: 00010297
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88011817ce28 RCX: ffff880116eb6cc0
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff880118056e20 RDI: ffff8801199512f8
RBP: ffff8801143a3908 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880118195708
R13: ffff880118052aa0 R14: ffff8801143a3d50 R15: ffff880118195708
FS: 00007f19f82cb700(0000) GS:ffff88011fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000008 CR3: 0000000112c6a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process dd (pid: 819, threadinfo ffff8801143a2000, task ffff880116eb6cc0)
Stack:
ffff88011817ce28 ffff880118195708 ffff8801143a3928 ffffffff81391bba
ffff88011817ce28 ffff880118195708 ffff8801143a3948 ffffffff81391bf1
ffff88011817ce28 0000000000000000 ffff8801143a39a8 ffffffff81398e3e
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81391bba>] elv_rq_merge_ok+0x4a/0x60
[<ffffffff81391bf1>] elv_try_merge+0x21/0x40
[<ffffffff81398e3e>] blk_queue_bio+0x8e/0x390
[<ffffffff81396a5a>] generic_make_request+0xca/0x100
[<ffffffff81396b04>] submit_bio+0x74/0x100
[<ffffffff811d45c2>] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x1ce2/0x3450
[<ffffffff811d0dc7>] blkdev_direct_IO+0x57/0x60
[<ffffffff811460b5>] generic_file_aio_read+0x6d5/0x760
[<ffffffff811986b2>] do_sync_read+0xe2/0x120
[<ffffffff81199345>] vfs_read+0xc5/0x180
[<ffffffff81199501>] sys_read+0x51/0x90
[<ffffffff81aeac12>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
There are multiple ways to fix this including making plug merge check
ELVPRIV; however,
* Calling into elevator outside queue lock is confusing and
error-prone.
* Requests on plug list aren't known to the elevator. They aren't on
the elevator yet, so there's no elevator specific state to update.
* Given the nature of plug merges - collecting bio's for the same
purpose from the same issuer - elevator specific restrictions aren't
applicable.
So, simply don't call into elevator methods from plug merge by moving
elv_bio_merged() from bio_attempt_*_merge() to blk_queue_bio(), and
using blk_try_merge() in attempt_plug_merge().
This is based on Jens' patch to skip elevator_allow_merge_fn() from
plug merge.
Note that this makes per-cgroup merged stats skip plug merging.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4F16F3CA.90904@kernel.dk>
Original-patch-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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