Commit ad0d05db authored by Ming Lei's avatar Ming Lei Committed by Jens Axboe
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blk-mq: Defer freeing of tags page_list to SRCU callback



Tag iterators can race with the freeing of the request pages(tags->page_list),
potentially leading to use-after-free issues.

Defer the freeing of the page list and the tags structure itself until
after an SRCU grace period has passed. This ensures that any concurrent
tag iterators have completed before the memory is released. With this
way, we can replace the big tags->lock in tags iterator code path with
srcu for solving the issue.

This is achieved by:
- Adding a new `srcu_struct tags_srcu` to `blk_mq_tag_set` to protect
  tag map iteration.
- Adding an `rcu_head` to `struct blk_mq_tags` to be used with
  `call_srcu`.
- Moving the page list freeing logic and the `kfree(tags)` call into a
  new callback function, `blk_mq_free_tags_callback`.
- In `blk_mq_free_tags`, invoking `call_srcu` to schedule the new
  callback for deferred execution.

The read-side protection for the tag iterators will be added in a
subsequent patch.

Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 9ad8e5af
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