linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/32] aio: implement IOCB_CMD

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Date:   Sun, 20 May 2018 08:33:39 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/32] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_POLL

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 06:32:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > +	spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->ctx_lock, flags);
> > +	list_add_tail(&aiocb->ki_list, &ctx->delayed_cancel_reqs);
> > +	spin_unlock(&ctx->ctx_lock);
> 
> ... and io_cancel(2) comes, finds it and inhume^Wcompletes it, leaving us to...
> 
> > +	spin_lock(&req->head->lock);
> 
> ... get buggered on attempt to dereference a pointer fetched from freed and
> reused object.

FWIW, how painful would it be to pull the following trick:
	* insert into wait queue under ->ctx_lock
	* have wakeup do schedule_work() with aio_complete() done from that
	* have ->ki_cancel() grab queue lock, remove from queue and use
the same schedule_work()

That way you'd get ->ki_cancel() with the same semantics as originally for
everything - "ask politely to finish ASAP", and called in the same locking
environment for everyone - under ->ctx_lock, that is.  queue lock nests
inside ->ctx_lock; no magical flags, etc.

The cost is schedule_work() for each async poll-related completion as you
have for fsync.  I don't know whether that's too costly or not; it certainly
simplifies the things, but whether it's OK performance-wise...

Comments?