2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jeff Moyer commit e92adcba261fd391591bb63c1703185a04a41554 upstream This patch wakes up a thread waiting in io_getevents if another thread destroys the context. This was tested using a small program that spawns a thread to wait in io_getevents while the parent thread destroys the io context and then waits for the getevents thread to exit. Without this patch, the program hangs indefinitely. With the patch, the program exits as expected. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Christopher Smith Cc: Benjamin LaHaise Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/aio.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -1166,7 +1166,10 @@ retry: break; if (min_nr <= i) break; - ret = 0; + if (unlikely(ctx->dead)) { + ret = -EINVAL; + break; + } if (to.timed_out) /* Only check after read evt */ break; /* Try to only show up in io wait if there are ops @@ -1231,6 +1234,13 @@ static void io_destroy(struct kioctx *io aio_cancel_all(ioctx); wait_for_all_aios(ioctx); + + /* + * Wake up any waiters. The setting of ctx->dead must be seen + * by other CPUs at this point. Right now, we rely on the + * locking done by the above calls to ensure this consistency. + */ + wake_up(&ioctx->wait); put_ioctx(ioctx); /* once for the lookup */ } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/