Re: [PATCH] blk-mq: move bio merge attempt to blk_mq_submit_bio()

From: Chengming Zhou
Date: Fri Aug 12 2022 - 10:48:30 EST


On 2022/8/12 20:40, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/12/22 2:39 AM, Chengming Zhou wrote:
>> We will try to get request from cache before alloc request, in
>> both cases will first attempt bio merge.
>>
>> This patch move this common part to blk_mq_submit_bio(), which
>> simplify the code and avoid passing in the pointer of bio.
>
> I don't think this will work. If we get a cached request, then we
> know we have a reference to the queue. If you swap these around,
> then that's no longer the case and we can have a use-after-free if
> the queue goes away.
>

Sorry, thanks for your reply!