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cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment
authorJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Sun, 5 Jun 2011 04:01:13 +0000 (06:01 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:31:24 +0000 (05:31 +0200)
commitd234df5a1ed1bab59b88660548c30ff1af69de5b
tree6b1947f49bec834655f0a0ee43a36cd07c7e2675
parentb115036a750c9bba4b9a598683eb5105744fe196
cfq-iosched: fix locking around ioc->ioc_data assignment

commit ab4bd22d3cce6977dc039664cc2d052e3147d662 upstream.

Since we are modifying this RCU pointer, we need to hold
the lock protecting it around it.

This fixes a potential reuse and double free of a cfq
io_context structure. The bug has been in CFQ for a long
time, it hit very few people but those it did hit seemed
to see it a lot.

Tracked in RH bugzilla here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968

Credit goes to Paul Bolle for figuring out that the issue
was around the one-hit ioc->ioc_data cache. Thanks to his
hard work the issue is now fixed.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
block/cfq-iosched.c