linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync

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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2012 12:36:14 +0800
From:	Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>
To:	Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
CC:	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-aio@...ck.org, mfasheh@...e.com,
	jlbec@...lplan.org, bcrl@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	David John Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] aio: make kiocb->private NUll in init_sync_kiocb()

Cc David.

On 05/31/12 12:12, Junxiao Bi wrote:
> Ocfs2 uses kiocb.*private as a flag of unsigned long size. In
> commit a11f7e6 ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio, the unaligned
> io flag is involved in it to serialize the unaligned aio. As
> *private is not initialized in init_sync_kiocb() of do_sync_write(),
> this unaligned io flag may be unexpectly set in an aligned dio.
> And this will cause OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_unaligned_aio decreased
> to -1 in ocfs2_dio_end_io(), thus the following unaligned dio
> will hang forever at ocfs2_aiodio_wait() in ocfs2_file_write_iter().
> 
> We can't initialized this flag in ocfs2_file_write_iter() since
> it may be invoked several times by do_sync_write(). So we initialize
> it in init_sync_kiocb(), it's also useful for other similiar use of
> it in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/aio.h |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/aio.h b/include/linux/aio.h
> index 2314ad8..b1a520e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/aio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/aio.h
> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ struct kiocb {
>  		(x)->ki_dtor = NULL;			\
>  		(x)->ki_obj.tsk = tsk;			\
>  		(x)->ki_user_data = 0;                  \
> +		(x)->private = NULL;			\
>  	} while (0)
>  
>  #define AIO_RING_MAGIC			0xa10a10a1


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