From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757934AbbGGPha (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:37:30 -0400 Received: from mail-yk0-f175.google.com ([209.85.160.175]:34007 "EHLO mail-yk0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932635AbbGGPgZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:36:25 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, vgoyal@redhat.com, Tejun Heo , Arianna Avanzini Subject: [PATCH 3/9] cfq-iosched: fix oom cfq_queue ref leak in cfq_set_request() Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:35:55 -0400 Message-Id: <1436283361-3889-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.4.3 In-Reply-To: <1436283361-3889-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> References: <1436283361-3889-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If the cfq_queue cached in cfq_io_cq is the oom one, cfq_set_request() replaces it by invoking cfq_get_queue() again without putting the oom queue leaking the reference it was holding. While oom queues are not released through reference counting, they're still reference counted and this can theoretically lead to the reference count overflowing and incorrectly invoke the usual release path on it. Fix it by making cfq_set_request() put the ref it was holding. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Arianna Avanzini --- block/cfq-iosched.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c index baf0b70..8acfb7a 100644 --- a/block/cfq-iosched.c +++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c @@ -4299,6 +4299,8 @@ cfq_set_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq, struct bio *bio, new_queue: cfqq = cic_to_cfqq(cic, is_sync); if (!cfqq || cfqq == &cfqd->oom_cfqq) { + if (cfqq) + cfq_put_queue(cfqq); cfqq = cfq_get_queue(cfqd, is_sync, cic, bio, gfp_mask); cic_set_cfqq(cic, cfqq, is_sync); } else { -- 2.4.3