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Commit 2de791ab authored by Dmitry Monakhov's avatar Dmitry Monakhov Committed by Jens Axboe
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bfq: fix blkio cgroup leakage v4

Changes from v1:
    - update commit description with proper ref-accounting justification

commit db37a34c ("block, bfq: get a ref to a group when adding it to a service tree")
introduce leak forbfq_group and blkcg_gq objects because of get/put
imbalance.
In fact whole idea of original commit is wrong because bfq_group entity
can not dissapear under us because it is referenced by child bfq_queue's
entities from here:
 -> bfq_init_entity()
    ->bfqg_and_blkg_get(bfqg);
    ->entity->parent = bfqg->my_entity

 -> bfq_put_queue(bfqq)
    FINAL_PUT
    ->bfqg_and_blkg_put(bfqq_group(bfqq))
    ->kmem_cache_free(bfq_pool, bfqq);

So parent entity can not disappear while child entity is in tree,
and child entities already has proper protection.
This patch revert commit db37a34c ("block, bfq: get a ref to a group when adding it to a service tree")

bfq_group leak trace caused by bad commit:
-> blkg_alloc
   -> bfq_pq_alloc
     -> bfqg_get (+1)
->bfq_activate_bfqq
  ->bf...
parent d8166519
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