Re: [PATCH] block: don't decrement flush request refcount if it's state is idle in flush_end_io()
From: Ming Lei
Date: Sun Aug 08 2021 - 05:01:15 EST
On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:03:30PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> flush_end_io() currently decrement request refcount unconditionally.
> However, it's possible that the request is already idle and it's
> refcount is zero since that flush_end_io() can be called concurrently.
>
> For example, nbd_clear_que() can be called concurrently with normal
> io completion or io timeout.
>
> Thus check idle before decrement to avoid refcount_t underflow
> warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> block/blk-flush.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
> index 1002f6c58181..9b65dc43702c 100644
> --- a/block/blk-flush.c
> +++ b/block/blk-flush.c
> @@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ static void flush_end_io(struct request *flush_rq, blk_status_t error)
> /* release the tag's ownership to the req cloned from */
> spin_lock_irqsave(&fq->mq_flush_lock, flags);
>
> - if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&flush_rq->ref)) {
> + if (blk_mq_rq_state(flush_rq) == MQ_RQ_IDLE ||
> + !refcount_dec_and_test(&flush_rq->ref)) {
It is driver's bug to finish one already ended request, so please
fix the driver instead.
Thanks,
Ming