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blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging
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commit 06a41a9 upstream.

When a CPU is hotplugged, the current blk-mq spews a warning like:

  kobject '(null)' (ffffe8ffffc8b5d8): tried to add an uninitialized object, something is seriously wrong.
  CPU: 1 PID: 1386 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 3.18.0-rc7-2.g088d59b-default #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.7.5-20140531_171129-lamiak 04/01/2014
   0000000000000000 0000000000000002 ffffffff81605f07 ffffe8ffffc8b5d8
   ffffffff8132c7a0 ffff88023341d370 0000000000000020 ffff8800bb05bd58
   ffff8800bb05bd08 000000000000a0a0 000000003f441940 0000000000000007
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff81005306>] dump_trace+0x86/0x330
   [<ffffffff81005644>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x94/0x170
   [<ffffffff81006d21>] show_stack+0x21/0x50
   [<ffffffff81605f07>] dump_stack+0x41/0x51
   [<ffffffff8132c7a0>] kobject_add+0xa0/0xb0
   [<ffffffff8130aee1>] blk_mq_register_hctx+0x91/0xb0
   [<ffffffff8130b82e>] blk_mq_sysfs_register+0x3e/0x60
   [<ffffffff81309298>] blk_mq_queue_reinit_notify+0xf8/0x190
   [<ffffffff8107cfdc>] notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x70
   [<ffffffff8105fd23>] cpu_notify+0x23/0x50
   [<ffffffff81060037>] _cpu_up+0x157/0x170
   [<ffffffff810600d9>] cpu_up+0x89/0xb0
   [<ffffffff815fa5b5>] cpu_subsys_online+0x35/0x80
   [<ffffffff814323cd>] device_online+0x5d/0xa0
   [<ffffffff81432485>] online_store+0x75/0x80
   [<ffffffff81236a5a>] kernfs_fop_write+0xda/0x150
   [<ffffffff811c5532>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1f0
   [<ffffffff811c5f42>] SyS_write+0x42/0xb0
   [<ffffffff8160c4ed>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
   [<00007f0132fb24e0>] 0x7f0132fb24e0

This is indeed because of an uninitialized kobject for blk_mq_ctx.
The blk_mq_ctx kobjects are initialized in blk_mq_sysfs_init(), but it
goes loop over hctx_for_each_ctx(), i.e. it initializes only for
online CPUs.  Thus, when a CPU is hotplugged, the ctx for the newly
onlined CPU is registered without initialization.

This patch fixes the issue by initializing the all ctx kobjects
belonging to each queue.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=908794
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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tiwai authored and gregkh committed Jan 16, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -390,16 +390,15 @@ static void blk_mq_sysfs_init(struct request_queue *q)
{
struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx;
int i, j;
int i;

kobject_init(&q->mq_kobj, &blk_mq_ktype);

queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i)
kobject_init(&hctx->kobj, &blk_mq_hw_ktype);

hctx_for_each_ctx(hctx, ctx, j)
kobject_init(&ctx->kobj, &blk_mq_ctx_ktype);
}
queue_for_each_ctx(q, ctx, i)
kobject_init(&ctx->kobj, &blk_mq_ctx_ktype);
}

/* see blk_register_queue() */
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