From: Vivek Goyal on
With RCU correctness on, We see following warning. This patch fixes it.

[ 103.790505] ===================================================
[ 103.790509] [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
[ 103.790511] ---------------------------------------------------
[ 103.790514] kernel/cgroup.c:4432 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
[ 103.790517]
[ 103.790517] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 103.790519]
[ 103.790521]
[ 103.790521] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
[ 103.790524] 4 locks held by bash/4422:
[ 103.790526] #0: (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8114befa>] sysfs_write_file+0x3c/0x144
[ 103.790537] #1: (s_active#102){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8114bfa5>] sysfs_write_file+0xe7/0x144
[ 103.790544] #2: (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff812263b1>] queue_attr_store+0x49/0x8f
[ 103.790552] #3: (&(&blkcg->lock)->rlock){......}, at: [<ffffffff8122e4db>] blkiocg_add_blkio_group+0x2b/0xad
[ 103.790560]
[ 103.790561] stack backtrace:
[ 103.790564] Pid: 4422, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.34-rc4-blkio-second-crash #81
[ 103.790567] Call Trace:
[ 103.790572] [<ffffffff81068f57>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9d/0xa5
[ 103.790577] [<ffffffff8107fac1>] css_id+0x44/0x57
[ 103.790581] [<ffffffff8122e503>] blkiocg_add_blkio_group+0x53/0xad
[ 103.790586] [<ffffffff81231936>] cfq_init_queue+0x139/0x32c
[ 103.790591] [<ffffffff8121f2d0>] elv_iosched_store+0xbf/0x1bf
[ 103.790595] [<ffffffff812263d8>] queue_attr_store+0x70/0x8f
[ 103.790599] [<ffffffff8114bfa5>] ? sysfs_write_file+0xe7/0x144
[ 103.790603] [<ffffffff8114bfc6>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144
[ 103.790609] [<ffffffff810f527f>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b
[ 103.790612] [<ffffffff81069863>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
[ 103.790616] [<ffffffff810f539c>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
[ 103.790622] [<ffffffff81002b5b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 103.790625]

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal(a)redhat.com>
---
block/cfq-iosched.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 002a5b6..9386bf8 100644
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -3741,8 +3741,10 @@ static void *cfq_init_queue(struct request_queue *q)
* to make sure that cfq_put_cfqg() does not try to kfree root group
*/
atomic_set(&cfqg->ref, 1);
+ rcu_read_lock();
blkiocg_add_blkio_group(&blkio_root_cgroup, &cfqg->blkg, (void *)cfqd,
0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
#endif
/*
* Not strictly needed (since RB_ROOT just clears the node and we
--
1.6.2.5

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