elevator: acquire q->sysfs_lock in elevator_change()
authorTomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:42:19 +0000 (16:42 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 8 Dec 2013 15:29:27 +0000 (07:29 -0800)
commit 7c8a3679e3d8e9d92d58f282161760a0e247df97 upstream.

Add locking of q->sysfs_lock into elevator_change() (an exported function)
to ensure it is held to protect q->elevator from elevator_init(), even if
elevator_change() is called from non-sysfs paths.
sysfs path (elv_iosched_store) uses __elevator_change(), non-locking
version, as the lock is already taken by elv_iosched_store().

Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
block/elevator.c

index 02d4390afeebde962cd328c9a6a64fe37b3c91fd..6d765f7e2b2bd905984ee54fc4dde56d1f5d1744 100644 (file)
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ fail_init:
 /*
  * Switch this queue to the given IO scheduler.
  */
-int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
+static int __elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
 {
        char elevator_name[ELV_NAME_MAX];
        struct elevator_type *e;
@@ -987,6 +987,18 @@ int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
 
        return elevator_switch(q, e);
 }
+
+int elevator_change(struct request_queue *q, const char *name)
+{
+       int ret;
+
+       /* Protect q->elevator from elevator_init() */
+       mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+       ret = __elevator_change(q, name);
+       mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
+       return ret;
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(elevator_change);
 
 ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name,
@@ -997,7 +1009,7 @@ ssize_t elv_iosched_store(struct request_queue *q, const char *name,
        if (!q->elevator)
                return count;
 
-       ret = elevator_change(q, name);
+       ret = __elevator_change(q, name);
        if (!ret)
                return count;