Re: [PATCH] block: do not allow updates through sysfs until registration completes

[Jens Axboe]

On 02/14/2017 08:27 PM, Tahsin Erdogan wrote:
> When a new disk shows up, sysfs queue directory is created before elevator
> is registered. This allows a user to attempt a scheduler switch even though
> the initial registration hasn't completed yet.
> 
> In one scenario, blk_register_queue() calls elv_register_queue() and
> right before cfq_registered_queue() is called, another process executes
> elevator_switch() and replaces q->elevator with deadline scheduler. When
> cfq_registered_queue() executes it interprets e->elevator_data as struct
> cfq_data even though it is actually struct deadline_data.
> 
> Grab q->sysfs_lock in blk_register_queue() to synchronize with sysfs
> callers.

Thanks, this looks good to me - both the grabbing of the lock, and
the ordering wrt UDEV_ADD. Queued up.

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Jens Axboe