blk-mq: Avoid race condition with uninitialized requests
commit 683d0e12 upstream. This patch should fix the bug reported in https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/249. We have to initialize at least the atomic_flags and the cmd_flags when allocating storage for the requests. Otherwise blk_mq_timeout_check() might dereference uninitialized pointers when racing with the creation of a request. Also move the reset of cmd_flags for the initializing code to the point where a request is freed. So we will never end up with pending flush request indicators that might trigger dereferences of invalid pointers in blk_mq_timeout_check(). Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Paulo De Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paulo De Rezende Pinatti <ppinatti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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