Re: [PATCH BUGFIX] block, bfq: fix overwrite of bfq_group pointer in bfq_find_set_group()

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 3/6/20 5:27 AM, Carlo Nonato wrote:
> The bfq_find_set_group() function takes as input a blkcg (which represents
> a cgroup) and retrieves the corresponding bfq_group, then it updates the
> bfq internal group hierarchy (see comments inside the function for why
> this is needed) and finally it returns the bfq_group.
> In the hierarchy update cycle, the pointer holding the correct bfq_group
> that has to be returned is mistakenly used to traverse the hierarchy
> bottom to top, meaning that in each iteration it gets overwritten with the
> parent of the current group. Since the update cycle stops at root's
> children (depth = 2), the overwrite becomes a problem only if the blkcg
> describes a cgroup at a hierarchy level deeper than that (depth > 2). In
> this case the root's child that happens to be also an ancestor of the
> correct bfq_group is returned. The main consequence is that processes
> contained in a cgroup at depth greater than 2 are wrongly placed in the
> group described above by BFQ.
> 
> This commits fixes this problem by using a different bfq_group pointer in
> the update cycle in order to avoid the overwrite of the variable holding
> the original group reference.

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe