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Message-ID: <20061028130350.GA18737@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:03:50 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [take21 1/4] kevent: Core files.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 02:36:31PM +0200, Eric Dumazet (dada1@...mosbay.com) wrote:
> Evgeniy Polyakov a e'crit :
> >On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:28:12PM +0200, Eric Dumazet 
> >(dada1@...mosbay.com) wrote:
> >>
> >>I really dont understand how you manage to queue multiple kevents in the 
> >>'overflow list'. You just queue one kevent at most. What am I missing ?
> >
> >There is no overflow list - it is a pointer to the first kevent in the
> >ready queue, which was not put into ring buffer. It is an optimisation, 
> >which allows to not search for that position each time new event should 
> >be placed into the buffer, when it starts to have an empty slot.
> 
> This overflow list (you may call it differently, but still it IS a list), 
> is not complete. I feel you add it just to make me happy, but I am not (yet 
> :) )

There is no overflow list.
There is ready queue, part of which (first several entries) is copied
into the ring buffer, overflow_kevent is a pointer to the first kevent which
was not copied.

> For example, you make no test at kevent_finish_user_complete() time.
> 
> Obviously, you can have a dangling pointer, and crash your box in certain 
> conditions.

You are right, I did not put overflow_kevent check into all places which
can remove kevent.

Here is a patch I am about to commit into the kevent tree:

diff --git a/kernel/kevent/kevent_user.c b/kernel/kevent/kevent_user.c
index 711a8a8..ecee668 100644
--- a/kernel/kevent/kevent_user.c
+++ b/kernel/kevent/kevent_user.c
@@ -235,6 +235,36 @@ static void kevent_free_rcu(struct rcu_h
 }
 
 /*
+ * Must be called under u->ready_lock.
+ * This function removes kevent from ready queue and 
+ * tries to add new kevent into ring buffer.
+ */
+static void kevent_remove_ready(struct kevent *k)
+{
+	struct kevent_user *u = k->user;
+
+	list_del(&k->ready_entry);
+	k->flags &= ~KEVENT_READY;
+	u->ready_num--;
+	if (++u->pring[0]->uidx == KEVENT_MAX_EVENTS)
+		u->pring[0]->uidx = 0;
+	
+	if (u->overflow_kevent) {
+		int err;
+
+		err = kevent_user_ring_add_event(u->overflow_kevent);
+		if (!err || u->overflow_kevent == k) {
+			if (u->overflow_kevent->ready_entry.next == &u->ready_list)
+				u->overflow_kevent = NULL;
+			else
+				u->overflow_kevent = 
+					list_entry(u->overflow_kevent->ready_entry.next, 
+							struct kevent, ready_entry);
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+/*
  * Complete kevent removing - it dequeues kevent from storage list
  * if it is requested, removes kevent from ready list, drops userspace
  * control block reference counter and schedules kevent freeing through RCU.
@@ -248,11 +278,8 @@ static void kevent_finish_user_complete(
 		kevent_dequeue(k);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&u->ready_lock, flags);
-	if (k->flags & KEVENT_READY) {
-		list_del(&k->ready_entry);
-		k->flags &= ~KEVENT_READY;
-		u->ready_num--;
-	}
+	if (k->flags & KEVENT_READY)
+		kevent_remove_ready(k);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&u->ready_lock, flags);
 
 	kevent_user_put(u);
@@ -303,25 +330,7 @@ static struct kevent *kqueue_dequeue_rea
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&u->ready_lock, flags);
 	if (u->ready_num && !list_empty(&u->ready_list)) {
 		k = list_entry(u->ready_list.next, struct kevent, ready_entry);
-		list_del(&k->ready_entry);
-		k->flags &= ~KEVENT_READY;
-		u->ready_num--;
-		if (++u->pring[0]->uidx == KEVENT_MAX_EVENTS)
-			u->pring[0]->uidx = 0;
-		
-		if (u->overflow_kevent) {
-			int err;
-
-			err = kevent_user_ring_add_event(u->overflow_kevent);
-			if (!err) {
-				if (u->overflow_kevent->ready_entry.next == &u->ready_list)
-					u->overflow_kevent = NULL;
-				else
-					u->overflow_kevent = 
-						list_entry(u->overflow_kevent->ready_entry.next, 
-								struct kevent, ready_entry);
-			}
-		}
+		kevent_remove_ready(k);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&u->ready_lock, flags);
 

It tries to put next kevent into the ring and thus update
overflow_kevent if new kevent has been put into the 
buffer or kevent being removed is overflow kevent.
Patch depends on committed changes of returned error numbers and unused
variables cleanup, it will be included into next patchset if there are
no problems with it.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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