linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/31] aio: implement IOCB_CMD

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Message-ID: <20180523004904.GH30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 23 May 2018 01:49:04 +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 08/31] aio: implement IOCB_CMD_POLL

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 01:45:30AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> Oh, bugger...
> 
> wakeup
> 	removed from queue
> 	schedule __aio_poll_complete()
> 
> cancel
> 	grab ctx->lock
> 	remove from list
> work
> 	aio_complete()
> 		check if it's in the list
> 		it isn't, move on to free the sucker
> cancel
> 	call ->ki_cancel()
> 	BOOM
> 
> Looks like we want to call ->ki_cancel() *BEFORE* removing from the list,
> as well as doing fput() after aio_complete().  The same ordering, BTW, goes
> for aio_read() et.al.
> 
> Look:
> CPU1:	io_cancel() grabs ->ctx_lock, finds iocb and removes it from the list.
> CPU2:	aio_rw_complete() on that iocb.  Since the sucker is not in the list
> anymore, we do NOT spin on ->ctx_lock and proceed to free iocb
> CPU1:	pass freed iocb to ->ki_cancel().  BOOM.

BTW, it seems that the mainline is vulnerable to this one.  I might be
missing something, but...