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Ilya Dryomov committed 43d1c0eb7e1
block: detach bdev inode from its wb in __blkdev_put() Since 52ebea749aae ("writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks") inode, at some point in its lifetime, gets attached to a wb (struct bdi_writeback). Detaching happens on evict, in inode_detach_wb() called from __destroy_inode(), and involves updating wb. However, detaching an internal bdev inode from its wb in __destroy_inode() is too late. Its bdi and by extension root wb are embedded into struct request_queue, which has different lifetime rules and can be freed long before the final bdput() is called (can be from __fput() of a corresponding /dev inode, through dput() - evict() - bd_forget(). bdevs hold onto the underlying disk/queue pair only while opened; as soon as bdev is closed all bets are off. In fact, disk/queue can be gone before __blkdev_put() even returns: 1499 static void __blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part) 1500 { ... 1518 if (bdev->bd_contains == bdev) { 1519 if (disk->fops->release) 1520 disk->fops->release(disk, mode); [ Driver puts its references to disk/queue ] 1521 } 1522 if (!bdev->bd_openers) { 1523 struct module *owner = disk->fops->owner; 1524 1525 disk_put_part(bdev->bd_part); 1526 bdev->bd_part = NULL; 1527 bdev->bd_disk = NULL; 1528 if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains) 1529 victim = bdev->bd_contains; 1530 bdev->bd_contains = NULL; 1531 1532 put_disk(disk); [ We put ours, the queue is gone The last bdput() would result in a write to invalid memory ] 1533 module_put(owner); ... 1539 } Since bdev inodes are special anyway, detach them in __blkdev_put() after clearing inode's dirty bits, turning the problematic inode_detach_wb() in __destroy_inode() into a noop. add_disk() grabs its disk->queue since 523e1d399ce0 ("block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue"), so the old ->release comment is removed in favor of the new inode_detach_wb() comment. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+, needs backporting Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>