linux-kernel - [ 69/72] epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd

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Message-Id: <20120228010435.467874503@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:05:38 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: [ 69/72] epoll: introduce POLLFREE to flush ->signalfd_wqh before kfree()

3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

commit d80e731ecab420ddcb79ee9d0ac427acbc187b4b upstream.

This patch is intentionally incomplete to simplify the review.
It ignores ep_unregister_pollwait() which plays with the same wqh.
See the next change.

epoll assumes that the EPOLL_CTL_ADD'ed file controls everything
f_op->poll() needs. In particular it assumes that the wait queue
can't go away until eventpoll_release(). This is not true in case
of signalfd, the task which does EPOLL_CTL_ADD uses its ->sighand
which is not connected to the file.

This patch adds the special event, POLLFREE, currently only for
epoll. It expects that init_poll_funcptr()'ed hook should do the
necessary cleanup. Perhaps it should be defined as EPOLLFREE in
eventpoll.

__cleanup_sighand() is changed to do wake_up_poll(POLLFREE) if
->signalfd_wqh is not empty, we add the new signalfd_cleanup()
helper.

ep_poll_callback(POLLFREE) simply does list_del_init(task_list).
This make this poll entry inconsistent, but we don't care. If you
share epoll fd which contains our sigfd with another process you
should blame yourself. signalfd is "really special". I simply do
not know how we can define the "right" semantics if it used with
epoll.

The main problem is, epoll calls signalfd_poll() once to establish
the connection with the wait queue, after that signalfd_poll(NULL)
returns the different/inconsistent results depending on who does
EPOLL_CTL_MOD/signalfd_read/etc. IOW: apart from sigmask, signalfd
has nothing to do with the file, it works with the current thread.

In short: this patch is the hack which tries to fix the symptoms.
It also assumes that nobody can take tasklist_lock under epoll
locks, this seems to be true.

Note:

	- we do not have wake_up_all_poll() but wake_up_poll()
	  is fine, poll/epoll doesn't use WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE.

	- signalfd_cleanup() uses POLLHUP along with POLLFREE,
	  we need a couple of simple changes in eventpoll.c to
	  make sure it can't be "lost".

Reported-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/eventpoll.c             |    4 ++++
 fs/signalfd.c              |   11 +++++++++++
 include/asm-generic/poll.h |    2 ++
 include/linux/signalfd.h   |    5 ++++-
 kernel/fork.c              |    5 ++++-
 5 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -827,6 +827,10 @@ static int ep_poll_callback(wait_queue_t
 	struct epitem *epi = ep_item_from_wait(wait);
 	struct eventpoll *ep = epi->ep;
 
+	/* the caller holds eppoll_entry->whead->lock */
+	if ((unsigned long)key & POLLFREE)
+		list_del_init(&wait->task_list);
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags);
 
 	/*
--- a/fs/signalfd.c
+++ b/fs/signalfd.c
@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@
 #include <linux/signalfd.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 
+void signalfd_cleanup(struct sighand_struct *sighand)
+{
+	wait_queue_head_t *wqh = &sighand->signalfd_wqh;
+
+	if (likely(!waitqueue_active(wqh)))
+		return;
+
+	/* wait_queue_t->func(POLLFREE) should do remove_wait_queue() */
+	wake_up_poll(wqh, POLLHUP | POLLFREE);
+}
+
 struct signalfd_ctx {
 	sigset_t sigmask;
 };
--- a/include/asm-generic/poll.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/poll.h
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 #define POLLRDHUP       0x2000
 #endif
 
+#define POLLFREE	0x4000	/* currently only for epoll */
+
 struct pollfd {
 	int fd;
 	short events;
--- a/include/linux/signalfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/signalfd.h
@@ -61,13 +61,16 @@ static inline void signalfd_notify(struc
 		wake_up(&tsk->sighand->signalfd_wqh);
 }
 
+extern void signalfd_cleanup(struct sighand_struct *sighand);
+
 #else /* CONFIG_SIGNALFD */
 
 static inline void signalfd_notify(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig) { }
 
+static inline void signalfd_cleanup(struct sighand_struct *sighand) { }
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_SIGNALFD */
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H */
-
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 #include <linux/user-return-notifier.h>
 #include <linux/oom.h>
 #include <linux/khugepaged.h>
+#include <linux/signalfd.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -910,8 +911,10 @@ static int copy_sighand(unsigned long cl
 
 void __cleanup_sighand(struct sighand_struct *sighand)
 {
-	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count))
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&sighand->count)) {
+		signalfd_cleanup(sighand);
 		kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand);
+	}
 }
 
 


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