linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] aio: ensure access to ctx->ring

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Message-ID: <5331C13C.8030507@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:47:40 -0400
From:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
To:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
CC:	Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, jmoyer@...hat.com,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
	miaox@...fujitsu.com, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: ensure access to ctx->ring_pages is correctly serialised

On 03/24/2014 03:07 PM, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:22:06PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On 03/21/2014 02:35 PM, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Based on the issues reported by Tang and Gu, I've come up with the an
>>> alternative fix that avoids adding additional locking in the event read
>>> code path.  The fix is to take the ring_lock mutex during page migration,
>>> which is already used to syncronize event readers and thus does not add
>>> any new locking requirements in aio_read_events_ring().  I've dropped
>>> the patches from Tang and Gu as a result.  This patch is now in my
>>> git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next.git tree and will be sent to Linus
>>> once a few other people chime in with their reviews of this change.
>>> Please review Tang, Gu.  Thanks!
>>
>> Hi Benjamin,
>>
>> This patch seems to trigger:
>>
>> [  433.476216] ======================================================
>> [  433.478468] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> ...
>
> Yeah, that's a problem -- thanks for the report.  The ring_lock mutex can't
> be nested inside of mmap_sem, as aio_read_events_ring() can take a page
> fault while holding ring_mutex.  That makes the following change required.
> I'll fold this change into the patch that caused this issue.

Yup, that does the trick.

Could you please add something to document why this is a trylock instead of a lock? If
I were reading the code there's no way I'd understand what's the reason behind it
without knowing of this bug report.


Thanks,
Sasha

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