Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: start request gstate with gen 1

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:46:20AM +0800, Jianchao Wang wrote:
> rq->gstate and rq->aborted_gstate both are zero before rqs are
> allocated. If we have a small timeout, when the timer fires,
> there could be rqs that are never allocated, and also there could
> be rq that has been allocated but not initialized and started. At
> the moment, the rq->gstate and rq->aborted_gstate both are 0, thus
> the blk_mq_terminate_expired will identify the rq is timed out and
> invoke .timeout early.
> 
> For scsi, this will cause scsi_times_out to be invoked before the
> scsi_cmnd is not initialized, scsi_cmnd->device is still NULL at
> the moment, then we will get crash.
> 
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/blk-core.c | 4 ++++
>  block/blk-mq.c   | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
> index abcb868..ce62681 100644
> --- a/block/blk-core.c
> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
> @@ -201,6 +201,10 @@ void blk_rq_init(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
>  	rq->part = NULL;
>  	seqcount_init(&rq->gstate_seq);
>  	u64_stats_init(&rq->aborted_gstate_sync);
> +	/*
> +	 * See comment of blk_mq_init_request
> +	 */
> +	WRITE_ONCE(rq->gstate, MQ_RQ_GEN_INC);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_rq_init);
>  
> diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
> index f5c7dbc..d62030a 100644
> --- a/block/blk-mq.c
> +++ b/block/blk-mq.c
> @@ -2069,6 +2069,13 @@ static int blk_mq_init_request(struct blk_mq_tag_set *set, struct request *rq,
>  
>  	seqcount_init(&rq->gstate_seq);
>  	u64_stats_init(&rq->aborted_gstate_sync);
> +	/*
> +	 * start gstate with gen 1 instead of 0, otherwise it will be equal
> +	 * to aborted_gstate, and be identified timed out by
> +	 * blk_mq_terminate_expired.
> +	 */
> +	WRITE_ONCE(rq->gstate, MQ_RQ_GEN_INC);
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }

Good catch, blk_mq_check_expired() is bypassed, but it is still hit
by blk_mq_terminate_expired().

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Ming