linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] Fix aio

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Message-ID: <20190312191801.GA5236@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:18:01 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>, kgraul@...ux.ibm.com,
        ktkhai@...tuozzo.com, kyeongdon.kim@....com,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, pabeni@...hat.com,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        zhengbin <zhengbin13@...wei.com>, bcrl@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
        houtao1@...wei.com, yi.zhang@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Fix aio_poll() races

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 09:06:18PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Where do we put the second iocb reference in case we return from
> > vfs_poll without ever being woken?
> 
> Depends.  If mask is non-zero (i.e. vfs_poll() has returned something
> we care about) and it has never been woken, we steal it and drop the
> reference ourselves.  If it is zero and we see that ->poll() has tried
> to put it on two queues, we steal it (again, assuming it's not on
> waitqueue and _can_ be stolen) and return -EINVAL.  In that case
> __io_submit_one() (or, by the end of the series, io_submit_one())
> will call iocb_destroy().  And in the normal waiting case (nothing
> interesting reported and no errors) it will end up on the list of
> cancellables.  Then it either will get completed by later wakeup, which
> will drop the reference, or it will get eventually cancelled, which will
> hit the same aio_poll_complete_work() and drop the reference...

Ok, seems like the logic is sane.  I was missing how the actual
mask logic worked in aio_poll().

> > Also it seems like the complete code would still benefit from a little
> > helper, something like:
> 
> Umm...  Not sure I like the name (something like aio_poll_done() seems
> to be better), but other than that - no problem.

I don't care about the name.  Feel free to change it to whatever suits
you.