[PATCH] blk-cgroup: wait for old blkgs to leave queue before disk rebind

From: Yu Kuai

Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 02:58:59 EST


From: Yu Kuai <yukuai@xxxxxxx>

blkcg_init_disk() currently waits for q->root_blkg to become NULL before
initializing blkcg state for a rebound disk. However, blkg_destroy_all()
clears q->root_blkg after calling blkg_destroy() for each blkg. At that
point the initial references have only been killed, and the blkgs remain
on q->blkg_list until the remaining references drain and
blkg_free_workfn() removes them.

A rebound disk can therefore install new blkcg state while old blkgs are
still attached to the request queue. Wait for q->blkg_list to become empty
instead, and wake the waiter when the final blkg is removed. This covers
the complete queue-side blkg lifetime without adding separate state.

Fixes: 3dbaacf6ab68 ("blk-cgroup: wait for blkcg cleanup before initializing new disk")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
block/blk-cgroup.c | 14 +++++---------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index 2b5c29434e42..6e1e12841880 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ static void blkg_free_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
blkg_put(blkg->parent);
spin_lock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
list_del_init(&blkg->q_node);
+ if (list_empty(&q->blkg_list))
+ wake_up_var(&q->blkg_list);
spin_unlock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
mutex_unlock(&q->blkcg_mutex);

@@ -612,8 +614,6 @@ static void blkg_destroy_all(struct gendisk *disk)
q->root_blkg = NULL;
spin_unlock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
mutex_unlock(&q->blkcg_mutex);
-
- wake_up_var(&q->root_blkg);
}

static void blkg_iostat_set(struct blkg_iostat *dst, struct blkg_iostat *src)
@@ -1472,14 +1472,10 @@ int blkcg_init_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
/*
* If the queue is shared across disk rebind (e.g., SCSI), the
* previous disk's blkcg state is cleaned up asynchronously via
- * disk_release() -> blkcg_exit_disk(). Wait for that cleanup to
- * finish (indicated by root_blkg becoming NULL) before setting up
- * new blkcg state. Otherwise, we may overwrite q->root_blkg while
- * the old one is still alive, and radix_tree_insert() in
- * blkg_create() will fail with -EEXIST because the old entries
- * still occupy the same queue id slot in blkcg->blkg_tree.
+ * disk_release() -> blkcg_exit_disk(). Wait for all old blkgs to be
+ * removed from the queue list before setting up new blkcg state.
*/
- wait_var_event(&q->root_blkg, !READ_ONCE(q->root_blkg));
+ wait_var_event(&q->blkg_list, list_empty_careful(&q->blkg_list));

new_blkg = blkg_alloc(&blkcg_root, disk, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_blkg)
--
2.51.0