Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] block: null_blk: fix queue leak inside removingdevice

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Dec 31 2013 - 11:27:04 EST


On Thu, Dec 26 2013, Ming Lei wrote:
> When queue_mode is NULL_Q_MQ and null_blk is being removed,
> blk_cleanup_queue() isn't called to cleanup queue, so the
> queue allocated won't be freed.
>
> This patch calls blk_cleanup_queue() for MQ to drain all
> pending requests first and release the reference counter
> of queue kobject, then blk_mq_free_queue() will be called
> in queue kobject's release handler when queue kobject's
> reference counter drops to zero.

I have applied this to for-linus for 3.13, the other 4 will go into
3.14.

--
Jens Axboe

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