linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/32] aio: replace kiocb_set_cancel_fn with a cancel

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Date:   Fri, 6 Apr 2018 03:15:53 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/32] aio: replace kiocb_set_cancel_fn with a
 cancel_kiocb file operation

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The current kiocb_set_cancel_fn implementation assumes the kiocb is
> embedded into an aio_kiocb, which is fundamentally unsafe as it might
> have been submitted by non-aio callers.  Instead add a cancel_kiocb
> file operation that replaced the ki_cancel function pointer set by
> kiocb_set_cancel_fn, and only adds iocbs to the active list when
> the read/write_iter methods return -EIOCBQUEUED and the file has
> a cancel_kiocb method.

> @@ -1440,6 +1423,16 @@ static inline ssize_t aio_rw_ret(struct kiocb *req, ssize_t ret)
>  {
>  	switch (ret) {
>  	case -EIOCBQUEUED:
> +		if (req->ki_filp->f_op->cancel_kiocb) {

... and by that point req might've been already freed by IO completion on
another CPU.
> +			struct aio_kiocb *iocb =
> +				container_of(req, struct aio_kiocb, rw);
> +			struct kioctx *ctx = iocb->ki_ctx;
> +			unsigned long flags;
> +
> +			spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->ctx_lock, flags);
> +			list_add_tail(&iocb->ki_list, &ctx->active_reqs);