cfq-iosched: handle failure of cfq group allocation

Cfq_lookup_create_cfqg() allocates struct blkcg_gq using GFP_ATOMIC.
In cfq_find_alloc_queue() possible allocation failure is not handled.
As a result kernel oopses on NULL pointer dereference when
cfq_link_cfqq_cfqg() calls cfqg_get() for NULL pointer.

Bug was introduced in v3.5 in commit cd1604fab4f9 ("blkcg: factor
out blkio_group creation"). Prior to that commit cfq group lookup
had returned pointer to root group as fallback.

This patch handles this error using existing fallback oom_cfqq.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Fixes: cd1604fab4f9 ("blkcg: factor out blkio_group creation")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

diff --git a/block/cfq-iosched.c b/block/cfq-iosched.c
index b9abdca..5da8e6e 100644 (file)
--- a/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -3590,6 +3590,11 @@ retry:
 
        blkcg = bio_blkcg(bio);
        cfqg = cfq_lookup_create_cfqg(cfqd, blkcg);
+       if (!cfqg) {
+               cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        cfqq = cic_to_cfqq(cic, is_sync);
 
        /*
@@ -3626,7 +3631,7 @@ retry:
                } else
                        cfqq = &cfqd->oom_cfqq;
        }
-
+out:
        if (new_cfqq)
                kmem_cache_free(cfq_pool, new_cfqq);