From: "Yu Kuai" <yukuai@fnnas.com>
To: "Yuto Ohnuki" <ytohnuki@amazon.com>,
"Jens Axboe" <axboe@kernel.dk>, <yukuai@fnnas.com>
Cc: "Nilay Shroff" <nilay@linux.ibm.com>,
"Ming Lei" <ming.lei@redhat.com>, <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<syzbot+71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] blk-wbt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE from wbt_init_enable_default()
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:30:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a06a34-b287-4958-b6c0-c1892a110acd@fnnas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260316070358.65225-2-ytohnuki@amazon.com>
在 2026/3/16 15:03, Yuto Ohnuki 写道:
> wbt_init_enable_default() uses WARN_ON_ONCE to check for failures from
> wbt_alloc() and wbt_init(). However, both are expected failure paths:
>
> - wbt_alloc() can return NULL under memory pressure (-ENOMEM)
> - wbt_init() can fail with -EBUSY if wbt is already registered
>
> syzbot triggers this by injecting memory allocation failures during MTD
> partition creation via ioctl(BLKPG), causing a spurious warning.
>
> wbt_init_enable_default() is a best-effort initialization called from
> blk_register_queue() with a void return type. Failure simply means the
> disk operates without writeback throttling, which is harmless.
>
> Replace WARN_ON_ONCE with plain if-checks, consistent with how
> wbt_set_lat() in the same file already handles these failures. Add a
> pr_warn() for the wbt_init() failure to retain diagnostic information
> without triggering a full stack trace.
>
> Reported-by:syzbot+71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes:https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c
> Fixes: 41afaeeda509 ("blk-wbt: fix possible deadlock to nest pcpu_alloc_mutex under q_usage_counter")
> Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki<ytohnuki@amazon.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Add pr_warn() for wbt_init() failure as suggested by Yu Kuai
> - Link to v1:https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260315143137.13547-2-ytohnuki@amazon.com/
> ---
> block/blk-wbt.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai@fnnas.com>
--
Thansk,
Kuai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-23 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-16 7:03 Yuto Ohnuki
2026-03-16 9:32 ` Nilay Shroff
2026-03-23 4:30 ` Yu Kuai [this message]
2026-04-04 14:56 ` Yuto Ohnuki
2026-04-06 19:03 ` Jens Axboe
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