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Since commit13a857a4c4("block, bfq: detect wakers and unconditionally inject their I/O"), every bfq_queue has a pointer to a waker bfq_queue and a list of the bfq_queues it may wake. In this respect, when a bfq_queue, say Q, remains with no I/O source attached to it, Q cannot be woken by any other bfq_queue, and cannot wake any other bfq_queue. Then Q must be removed from the woken list of its possible waker bfq_queue, and all bfq_queues in the woken list of Q must stop having a waker bfq_queue. Q remains with no I/O source in two cases: when the last process associated with Q exits or when such a process gets associated with a different bfq_queue. Unfortunately, commit13a857a4c4("block, bfq: detect wakers and unconditionally inject their I/O") performed the above updates only in the first case. This commit fixes this bug by moving these updates to when Q gets freed. This is a simple and safe way to handle all cases, as both the above events, process exit and re-association, lead to Q being freed soon, and because dangling references would come out only after Q gets freed (if no update were performed). Fixes:13a857a4c4("block, bfq: detect wakers and unconditionally inject their I/O") Reported-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.