Commit 0048b483 authored by Ming Lei's avatar Ming Lei Committed by Jens Axboe
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blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request

Inside timeout handler, blk_mq_tag_to_rq() is called
to retrieve the request from one tag. This way is obviously
wrong because the request can be freed any time and some
fiedds of the request can't be trusted, then kernel oops
might be triggered[1].

Currently wrt. blk_mq_tag_to_rq(), the only special case is
that the flush request can share same tag with the request
cloned from, and the two requests can't be active at the same
time, so this patch fixes the above issue by updating tags->rqs[tag]
with the active request(either flush rq or the request cloned
from) of the tag.

Also blk_mq_tag_to_rq() gets much simplified with this patch.

Given blk_mq_tag_to_rq() is mainly for drivers and the caller must
make sure the request can't be freed, so in bt_for_each() this
helper is replaced with tags->rqs[tag].

[1] kernel oops log
[  439.696220] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000158^M
[  439.697162] IP: [<ffffffff812d89ba>] ...
parent 596f5aad
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