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    blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request · 0048b483
    Ming Lei authored
    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>] ...
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