blkcg: blkcg_css_alloc() should grab blkcg_pol_mutex while iterating blkcg_policy[]
An entry in blkcg_policy[] is stable while there are non-bypassing in-flight IOs on a request_queue which has the policy activated. This is why most derefs of blkcg_policy[] don't need explicit locking; however, blkcg_css_alloc() isn't invoked from IO path and thus doesn't have this protection and may race policies being added and removed. Fix it by adding explicit blkcg_pol_mutex protection around blkcg_policy[] iteration in blkcg_css_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Fixes: e48453c3 ("block, cgroup: implement policy-specific per-blkcg data") Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Arianna Avanzini <avanzini.arianna@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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