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...
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