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authorDennis Zhou (Facebook) <dennisszhou@gmail.com>2018-08-31 16:22:44 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-08-31 14:48:58 -0600
commit3111885015b458c97b4cf272e2a87f1d6f0ed06a (patch)
tree828379a8a4a92e45414f08b05a9e143d72e7d7ea /block/blk-throttle.c
parent59b57717fff8b562825d9d25e0180ad7e8048ca9 (diff)
downloadlinux-3111885015b458c97b4cf272e2a87f1d6f0ed06a.tar.gz
blkcg: use tryget logic when associating a blkg with a bio
There is a very small change a bio gets caught up in a really
unfortunate race between a task migration, cgroup exiting, and itself
trying to associate with a blkg. This is due to css offlining being
performed after the css->refcnt is killed which triggers removal of
blkgs that reach their blkg->refcnt of 0.

To avoid this, association with a blkg should use tryget and fallback to
using the root_blkg.

Fixes: 08e18eab0c579 ("block: add bi_blkg to the bio for cgroups")
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiufei Xue <jiufei.xue@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/blk-throttle.c')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-throttle.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
index a3eede00d302..01d0620a4e4a 100644
--- a/block/blk-throttle.c
+++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
@@ -2129,8 +2129,9 @@ static inline void throtl_update_latency_buckets(struct throtl_data *td)
 static void blk_throtl_assoc_bio(struct throtl_grp *tg, struct bio *bio)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
-	if (bio->bi_css)
-		bio_associate_blkg(bio, tg_to_blkg(tg));
+	/* fallback to root_blkg if we fail to get a blkg ref */
+	if (bio->bi_css && (bio_associate_blkg(bio, tg_to_blkg(tg)) == -ENODEV))
+		bio_associate_blkg(bio, bio->bi_disk->queue->root_blkg);
 	bio_issue_init(&bio->bi_issue, bio_sectors(bio));
 #endif
 }