1. 16 9月, 2019 1 次提交
    • M
      blk-mq: free hw queue's resource in hctx's release handler · e238e6dc
      Ming Lei 提交于
      [ Upstream commit c7e2d94b3d1634988a95ac4d77a72dc7487ece06 ]
      
      Once blk_cleanup_queue() returns, tags shouldn't be used any more,
      because blk_mq_free_tag_set() may be called. Commit 45a9c9d9
      ("blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free") fixes this issue exactly.
      
      However, that commit introduces another issue. Before 45a9c9d9,
      we are allowed to run queue during cleaning up queue if the queue's
      kobj refcount is held. After that commit, queue can't be run during
      queue cleaning up, otherwise oops can be triggered easily because
      some fields of hctx are freed by blk_mq_free_queue() in blk_cleanup_queue().
      
      We have invented ways for addressing this kind of issue before, such as:
      
      	8dc765d438f1 ("SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done")
      	c2856ae2 ("blk-mq: quiesce queue before freeing queue")
      
      But still can't cover all cases, recently James reports another such
      kind of issue:
      
      	https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=155389088124782&w=2
      
      This issue can be quite hard to address by previous way, given
      scsi_run_queue() may run requeues for other LUNs.
      
      Fixes the above issue by freeing hctx's resources in its release handler, and this
      way is safe becasue tags isn't needed for freeing such hctx resource.
      
      This approach follows typical design pattern wrt. kobject's release handler.
      
      Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@oracle.com>
      Cc: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
      Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
      Cc: Martin K . Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
      Cc: James E . J . Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
      Reported-by: NJames Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
      Fixes: 45a9c9d9 ("blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free")
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Tested-by: NJames Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
      e238e6dc
  2. 04 8月, 2019 1 次提交
  3. 31 7月, 2019 1 次提交
    • J
      block: init flush rq ref count to 1 · 8a1a3d38
      Josef Bacik 提交于
      [ Upstream commit b554db147feea39617b533ab6bca247c91c6198a ]
      
      We discovered a problem in newer kernels where a disconnect of a NBD
      device while the flush request was pending would result in a hang.  This
      is because the blk mq timeout handler does
      
              if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&rq->ref))
                      return true;
      
      to determine if it's ok to run the timeout handler for the request.
      Flush_rq's don't have a ref count set, so we'd skip running the timeout
      handler for this request and it would just sit there in limbo forever.
      
      Fix this by always setting the refcount of any request going through
      blk_init_rq() to 1.  I tested this with a nbd-server that dropped flush
      requests to verify that it hung, and then tested with this patch to
      verify I got the timeout as expected and the error handling kicked in.
      Thanks,
      Signed-off-by: NJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
      8a1a3d38
  4. 10 7月, 2019 1 次提交
    • G
      block: Fix a NULL pointer dereference in generic_make_request() · c9d8d3e9
      Guilherme G. Piccoli 提交于
      ```--------------------------------------------------------------
      This patch is not on mainline and is meant to 4.19 stable *only*.
      After the patch description there's a reasoning about that.
      ```
      
      --------------------------------------------------------------
      
      Commit 37f9579f ("blk-mq: Avoid that submitting a bio concurrently
      with device removal triggers a crash") introduced a NULL pointer
      dereference in generic_make_request(). The patch sets q to NULL and
      enter_succeeded to false; right after, there's an 'if (enter_succeeded)'
      which is not taken, and then the 'else' will dereference q in
      blk_queue_dying(q).
      
      This patch just moves the 'q = NULL' to a point in which it won't trigger
      the oops, although the semantics of this NULLification remains untouched.
      
      A simple test case/reproducer is as follows:
      a) Build kernel v4.19.56-stable with CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP=n.
      
      b) Create a raid0 md array with 2 NVMe devices as members, and mount
      it with an ext4 filesystem.
      
      c) Run the following oneliner (supposing the raid0 is mounted in /mnt):
      (dd of=/mnt/tmp if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=999 &); sleep 0.3;
      echo 1 > /sys/block/nvme1n1/device/device/remove
      (whereas nvme1n1 is the 2nd array member)
      
      This will trigger the following oops:
      
      BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000078
      PGD 0 P4D 0
      Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
      RIP: 0010:generic_make_request+0x32b/0x400
      Call Trace:
       submit_bio+0x73/0x140
       ext4_io_submit+0x4d/0x60
       ext4_writepages+0x626/0xe90
       do_writepages+0x4b/0xe0
      [...]
      
      This patch has no functional changes and preserves the md/raid0 behavior
      when a member is removed before kernel v4.17.
      
      ----------------------------
      Why this is not on mainline?
      ----------------------------
      
      The patch was originally submitted upstream in linux-raid and
      linux-block mailing-lists - it was initially accepted by Song Liu,
      but Christoph Hellwig[0] observed that there was a clean-up series
      ready to be accepted from Ming Lei[1] that fixed the same issue.
      
      The accepted patches from Ming's series in upstream are: commit
      47cdee29ef9d ("block: move blk_exit_queue into __blk_release_queue") and
      commit fe2008640ae3 ("block: don't protect generic_make_request_checks
      with blk_queue_enter"). Those patches basically do a clean-up in the
      block layer involving:
      
      1) Putting back blk_exit_queue() logic into __blk_release_queue(); that
      path was changed in the past and the logic from blk_exit_queue() was
      added to blk_cleanup_queue().
      
      2) Removing the guard/protection in generic_make_request_checks() with
      blk_queue_enter().
      
      The problem with Ming's series for -stable is that it relies in the
      legacy request IO path removal. So it's "backport-able" to v5.0+,
      but doing that for early versions (like 4.19) would incur in complex
      code changes. Hence, it was suggested by Christoph and Song Liu that
      this patch was submitted to stable only; otherwise merging it upstream
      would add code to fix a path removed in a subsequent commit.
      
      [0] lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190521172258.GA32702@infradead.org
      [1] lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20190515030310.20393-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
      
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Reviewed-by: NBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
      Reviewed-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: NEric Ren <renzhengeek@gmail.com>
      Fixes: 37f9579f ("blk-mq: Avoid that submitting a bio concurrently with device removal triggers a crash")
      Signed-off-by: NGuilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com>
      Acked-by: NSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      c9d8d3e9
  5. 15 6月, 2019 1 次提交
  6. 08 5月, 2019 1 次提交
  7. 21 11月, 2018 1 次提交
    • M
      SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done · 410306a0
      Ming Lei 提交于
      commit 8dc765d438f1e42b3e8227b3b09fad7d73f4ec9a upstream.
      
      c2856ae2 ("blk-mq: quiesce queue before freeing queue") has
      already fixed this race, however the implied synchronize_rcu()
      in blk_mq_quiesce_queue() can slow down LUN probe a lot, so caused
      performance regression.
      
      Then 1311326c ("blk-mq: avoid to synchronize rcu inside blk_cleanup_queue()")
      tried to quiesce queue for avoiding unnecessary synchronize_rcu()
      only when queue initialization is done, because it is usual to see
      lots of inexistent LUNs which need to be probed.
      
      However, turns out it isn't safe to quiesce queue only when queue
      initialization is done. Because when one SCSI command is completed,
      the user of sending command can be waken up immediately, then the
      scsi device may be removed, meantime the run queue in scsi_end_request()
      is still in-progress, so kernel panic can be caused.
      
      In Red Hat QE lab, there are several reports about this kind of kernel
      panic triggered during kernel booting.
      
      This patch tries to address the issue by grabing one queue usage
      counter during freeing one request and the following run queue.
      
      Fixes: 1311326c ("blk-mq: avoid to synchronize rcu inside blk_cleanup_queue()")
      Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
      Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
      Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: jianchao.wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      410306a0
  8. 22 9月, 2018 1 次提交
    • O
      block: use nanosecond resolution for iostat · b57e99b4
      Omar Sandoval 提交于
      Klaus Kusche reported that the I/O busy time in /proc/diskstats was not
      updating properly on 4.18. This is because we started using ktime to
      track elapsed time, and we convert nanoseconds to jiffies when we update
      the partition counter. However, this gets rounded down, so any I/Os that
      take less than a jiffy are not accounted for. Previously in this case,
      the value of jiffies would sometimes increment while we were doing I/O,
      so at least some I/Os were accounted for.
      
      Let's convert the stats to use nanoseconds internally. We still report
      milliseconds as before, now more accurately than ever. The value is
      still truncated to 32 bits for backwards compatibility.
      
      Fixes: 522a7775 ("block: consolidate struct request timestamp fields")
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Reported-by: NKlaus Kusche <klaus.kusche@computerix.info>
      Signed-off-by: NOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      b57e99b4
  9. 06 9月, 2018 1 次提交
  10. 18 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  11. 15 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  12. 09 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  13. 05 8月, 2018 1 次提交
    • L
      Partially revert "block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions" · a32e236e
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      It turns out that commit 721c7fc7 ("block: fail op_is_write()
      requests to read-only partitions"), while obviously correct, causes
      problems for some older lvm2 installations.
      
      The reason is that the lvm snapshotting will continue to write to the
      snapshow COW volume, even after the volume has been marked read-only.
      End result: snapshot failure.
      
      This has actually been fixed in newer version of the lvm2 tool, but the
      old tools still exist, and the breakage was reported both in the kernel
      bugzilla and in the Debian bugzilla:
      
        https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200439
        https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900442
      
      The lvm2 fix is here
      
        https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=commit;h=a6fdb9d9d70f51c49ad11a87ab4243344e6701a3
      
      but until everybody has updated to recent versions, we'll have to weaken
      the "never write to read-only partitions" check.  It now allows the
      write to happen, but causes a warning, something like this:
      
        generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device dm-3 (partno X)
        Modules linked in: nf_tables xt_cgroup xt_owner kvm_intel iwlmvm kvm irqbypass iwlwifi
        CPU: 1 PID: 77 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.17.9-gentoo #3
        Hardware name: LENOVO 20B6A019RT/20B6A019RT, BIOS GJET91WW (2.41 ) 09/21/2016
        Workqueue: ksnaphd do_metadata
        RIP: 0010:generic_make_request_checks+0x4ac/0x600
        ...
        Call Trace:
         generic_make_request+0x64/0x400
         submit_bio+0x6c/0x140
         dispatch_io+0x287/0x430
         sync_io+0xc3/0x120
         dm_io+0x1f8/0x220
         do_metadata+0x1d/0x30
         process_one_work+0x1b9/0x3e0
         worker_thread+0x2b/0x3c0
         kthread+0x113/0x130
         ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
      
      Note that this is a "revert" in behavior only.  I'm leaving alone the
      actual code cleanups in commit 721c7fc7, but letting the previously
      uncaught request go through with a warning instead of stopping it.
      
      Fixes: 721c7fc7 ("block: fail op_is_write() requests to read-only partitions")
      Reported-and-tested-by: NWGH <wgh@torlan.ru>
      Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
      Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a32e236e
  14. 03 8月, 2018 1 次提交
  15. 30 7月, 2018 1 次提交
  16. 18 7月, 2018 1 次提交
    • M
      block: Add and use op_stat_group() for indexing disk_stat fields. · ddcf35d3
      Michael Callahan 提交于
      Add and use a new op_stat_group() function for indexing partition stat
      fields rather than indexing them by rq_data_dir() or bio_data_dir().
      This function works similarly to op_is_sync() in that it takes the
      request::cmd_flags or bio::bi_opf flags and determines which stats
      should et updated.
      
      In addition, the second parameter to generic_start_io_acct() and
      generic_end_io_acct() is now a REQ_OP rather than simply a read or
      write bit and it uses op_stat_group() on the parameter to determine
      the stat group.
      
      Note that the partition in_flight counts are not part of the per-cpu
      statistics and as such are not indexed via this function.  It's now
      indexed by op_is_write().
      
      tj: Refreshed on top of v4.17.  Updated to pass around REQ_OP.
      Signed-off-by: NMichael Callahan <michaelcallahan@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
      Cc: Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io>
      Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      ddcf35d3
  17. 09 7月, 2018 5 次提交
  18. 28 6月, 2018 1 次提交
  19. 20 6月, 2018 1 次提交
    • B
      Revert "block: Add warning for bi_next not NULL in bio_endio()" · 9c24c10a
      Bart Van Assche 提交于
      Commit 0ba99ca4 ("block: Add warning for bi_next not NULL in
      bio_endio()") breaks the dm driver. end_clone_bio() detects whether
      or not a bio is the last bio associated with a request by checking
      the .bi_next field. Commit 0ba99ca4 clears that field before
      end_clone_bio() has had a chance to inspect that field. Hence revert
      commit 0ba99ca4.
      
      This patch avoids that KASAN reports the following complaint when
      running the srp-test software (srp-test/run_tests -c -d -r 10 -t 02-mq):
      
      ==================================================================
      BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in bio_advance+0x11b/0x1d0
      Read of size 4 at addr ffff8801300e06d0 by task ksoftirqd/0/9
      
      CPU: 0 PID: 9 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc1-dbg+ #1
      Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
      Call Trace:
       dump_stack+0xa4/0xf5
       print_address_description+0x6f/0x270
       kasan_report+0x241/0x360
       __asan_load4+0x78/0x80
       bio_advance+0x11b/0x1d0
       blk_update_request+0xa7/0x5b0
       scsi_end_request+0x56/0x320 [scsi_mod]
       scsi_io_completion+0x7d6/0xb20 [scsi_mod]
       scsi_finish_command+0x1c0/0x280 [scsi_mod]
       scsi_softirq_done+0x19a/0x230 [scsi_mod]
       blk_mq_complete_request+0x160/0x240
       scsi_mq_done+0x50/0x1a0 [scsi_mod]
       srp_recv_done+0x515/0x1330 [ib_srp]
       __ib_process_cq+0xa0/0xf0 [ib_core]
       ib_poll_handler+0x38/0xa0 [ib_core]
       irq_poll_softirq+0xe8/0x1f0
       __do_softirq+0x128/0x60d
       run_ksoftirqd+0x3f/0x60
       smpboot_thread_fn+0x352/0x460
       kthread+0x1c1/0x1e0
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30
      
      Allocated by task 1918:
       save_stack+0x43/0xd0
       kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0
       kasan_slab_alloc+0x11/0x20
       kmem_cache_alloc+0xfe/0x350
       mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20
       mempool_alloc+0xfb/0x270
       bio_alloc_bioset+0x244/0x350
       submit_bh_wbc+0x9c/0x2f0
       __block_write_full_page+0x299/0x5a0
       block_write_full_page+0x16b/0x180
       blkdev_writepage+0x18/0x20
       __writepage+0x42/0x80
       write_cache_pages+0x376/0x8a0
       generic_writepages+0xbe/0x110
       blkdev_writepages+0xe/0x10
       do_writepages+0x9b/0x180
       __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x178/0x1c0
       file_write_and_wait_range+0x59/0xc0
       blkdev_fsync+0x46/0x80
       vfs_fsync_range+0x66/0x100
       do_fsync+0x3d/0x70
       __x64_sys_fsync+0x21/0x30
       do_syscall_64+0x77/0x230
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
      
      Freed by task 9:
       save_stack+0x43/0xd0
       __kasan_slab_free+0x137/0x190
       kasan_slab_free+0xe/0x10
       kmem_cache_free+0xd3/0x380
       mempool_free_slab+0x17/0x20
       mempool_free+0x63/0x160
       bio_free+0x81/0xa0
       bio_put+0x59/0x60
       end_bio_bh_io_sync+0x5d/0x70
       bio_endio+0x1a7/0x360
       blk_update_request+0xd0/0x5b0
       end_clone_bio+0xa3/0xd0 [dm_mod]
       bio_endio+0x1a7/0x360
       blk_update_request+0xd0/0x5b0
       scsi_end_request+0x56/0x320 [scsi_mod]
       scsi_io_completion+0x7d6/0xb20 [scsi_mod]
       scsi_finish_command+0x1c0/0x280 [scsi_mod]
       scsi_softirq_done+0x19a/0x230 [scsi_mod]
       blk_mq_complete_request+0x160/0x240
       scsi_mq_done+0x50/0x1a0 [scsi_mod]
       srp_recv_done+0x515/0x1330 [ib_srp]
       __ib_process_cq+0xa0/0xf0 [ib_core]
       ib_poll_handler+0x38/0xa0 [ib_core]
       irq_poll_softirq+0xe8/0x1f0
       __do_softirq+0x128/0x60d
      
      The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8801300e0640
       which belongs to the cache bio-0 of size 200
      The buggy address is located 144 bytes inside of
       200-byte region [ffff8801300e0640, ffff8801300e0708)
      The buggy address belongs to the page:
      page:ffffea0004c03800 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff88015a563a00 index:0x0 compound_mapcount: 0
      flags: 0x8000000000008100(slab|head)
      raw: 8000000000008100 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 ffff88015a563a00
      raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000330033 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
      page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
      
      Memory state around the buggy address:
       ffff8801300e0580: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
       ffff8801300e0600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
      >ffff8801300e0680: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                                                       ^
       ffff8801300e0700: fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
       ffff8801300e0780: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
      ==================================================================
      
      Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
      Fixes: 0ba99ca4 ("block: Add warning for bi_next not NULL in bio_endio()")
      Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      9c24c10a
  20. 07 6月, 2018 1 次提交
  21. 03 6月, 2018 1 次提交
    • J
      block: don't use blocking queue entered for recursive bio submits · cd4a4ae4
      Jens Axboe 提交于
      If we end up splitting a bio and the queue goes away between
      the initial submission and the later split submission, then we
      can block forever in blk_queue_enter() waiting for the reference
      to drop to zero. This will never happen, since we already hold
      a reference.
      
      Mark a split bio as already having entered the queue, so we can
      just use the live non-blocking queue enter variant.
      
      Thanks to Tetsuo Handa for the analysis.
      
      Reported-by: syzbot+c4f9cebf9d651f6e54de@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      cd4a4ae4
  22. 01 6月, 2018 3 次提交
  23. 31 5月, 2018 1 次提交
  24. 29 5月, 2018 1 次提交
    • K
      blk-mq: Remove generation seqeunce · 12f5b931
      Keith Busch 提交于
      This patch simplifies the timeout handling by relying on the request
      reference counting to ensure the iterator is operating on an inflight
      and truly timed out request. Since the reference counting prevents the
      tag from being reallocated, the block layer no longer needs to prevent
      drivers from completing their requests while the timeout handler is
      operating on it: a driver completing a request is allowed to proceed to
      the next state without additional syncronization with the block layer.
      
      This also removes any need for generation sequence numbers since the
      request lifetime is prevented from being reallocated as a new sequence
      while timeout handling is operating on it.
      
      To enables this a refcount is added to struct request so that request
      users can be sure they're operating on the same request without it
      changing while they're processing it.  The request's tag won't be
      released for reuse until both the timeout handler and the completion
      are done with it.
      Signed-off-by: NKeith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
      [hch: slight cleanups, added back submission side hctx lock, use cmpxchg
       for completions]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      12f5b931
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      block: Shorten interrupt disabled regions · 50864670
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Commit 9c40cef2 ("sched: Move blk_schedule_flush_plug() out of
      __schedule()") moved the blk_schedule_flush_plug() call out of the
      interrupt/preempt disabled region in the scheduler. This allows to replace
      local_irq_save/restore(flags) by local_irq_disable/enable() in
      blk_flush_plug_list().
      
      But it makes more sense to disable interrupts explicitly when the request
      queue is locked end reenable them when the request to is unlocked. This
      shortens the interrupt disabled section which is important when the plug
      list contains requests for more than one queue. The comment which claims
      that disabling interrupts around the loop is misleading as the called
      functions can reenable interrupts unconditionally anyway and obfuscates the
      scope badly:
      
       local_irq_save(flags);
         spin_lock(q->queue_lock);
         ...
         queue_unplugged(q...);
           scsi_request_fn();
             spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
      
      -------------------^^^ ????
      
             spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
           spin_unlock(q->queue_lock);
       local_irq_restore(flags);
      
      Aside of that the detached interrupt disabling is a constant pain for
      PREEMPT_RT as it requires patching and special casing when RT is enabled
      while with the spin_*_irq() variants this happens automatically.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110622174919.025446432@linutronix.deSigned-off-by: NSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      50864670