Re: [PATCH V4 18/24] block: fail to show/store elevator sysfs attribute if elevator is dying

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On 4/30/25 06:35, Ming Lei wrote:
Prepare for moving elv_register[unregister]_queue out of elevator_lock
& queue freezing, so we may have to call elv_unregister_queue() after
elevator ->exit() is called, then there is small window for user to
call into ->show()/store(), and user-after-free can be caused.

Fail to show/store elevator sysfs attribute if elevator is dying by
adding one new flag of ELEVATOR_FLAG_DYNG, which is protected by
elevator ->sysfs_lock.

Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  block/blk-mq-sched.c |  1 +
  block/elevator.c     | 10 ++++++----
  block/elevator.h     |  1 +
  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq-sched.c b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
index 336a15ffecfa..55a0fd105147 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-sched.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-sched.c
@@ -551,5 +551,6 @@ void blk_mq_exit_sched(struct request_queue *q, struct elevator_queue *e)
  	if (e->type->ops.exit_sched)
  		e->type->ops.exit_sched(e);
  	blk_mq_sched_tags_teardown(q, flags);
+	set_bit(ELEVATOR_FLAG_DYING, &q->elevator->flags);
  	q->elevator = NULL;
  }

set_bit() is unordered; don't you need to take ->sysfs_lock here?

Cheers,

Hannes
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