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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2011-02-25 14:44:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-02-25 15:07:37 -0800
commit3bd9a5d734c7cc7533b27abf451416c7f50095a7 (patch)
tree357fc4ec95d7163cb96891151df51f6d7d130d0a /fs/aio.c
parent29723fccc837d20039078f7a571e8d457eb0d6c6 (diff)
aio: fix rcu ioctx lookup
aio-dio-invalidate-failure GPFs in aio_put_req from io_submit. lookup_ioctx doesn't implement the rcu lookup pattern properly. rcu_read_lock does not prevent refcount going to zero, so we might take a refcount on a zero count ioctx. Fix the bug by atomically testing for zero refcount before incrementing. [jack@suse.cz: added comment into the code] Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/aio.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c35
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index fc557a3be0a..b4dd668fbcc 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -239,15 +239,23 @@ static void __put_ioctx(struct kioctx *ctx)
call_rcu(&ctx->rcu_head, ctx_rcu_free);
}
-#define get_ioctx(kioctx) do { \
- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&(kioctx)->users) <= 0); \
- atomic_inc(&(kioctx)->users); \
-} while (0)
-#define put_ioctx(kioctx) do { \
- BUG_ON(atomic_read(&(kioctx)->users) <= 0); \
- if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&(kioctx)->users))) \
- __put_ioctx(kioctx); \
-} while (0)
+static inline void get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+{
+ BUG_ON(atomic_read(&kioctx->users) <= 0);
+ atomic_inc(&kioctx->users);
+}
+
+static inline int try_get_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+{
+ return atomic_inc_not_zero(&kioctx->users);
+}
+
+static inline void put_ioctx(struct kioctx *kioctx)
+{
+ BUG_ON(atomic_read(&kioctx->users) <= 0);
+ if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&kioctx->users)))
+ __put_ioctx(kioctx);
+}
/* ioctx_alloc
* Allocates and initializes an ioctx. Returns an ERR_PTR if it failed.
@@ -601,8 +609,13 @@ static struct kioctx *lookup_ioctx(unsigned long ctx_id)
rcu_read_lock();
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(ctx, n, &mm->ioctx_list, list) {
- if (ctx->user_id == ctx_id && !ctx->dead) {
- get_ioctx(ctx);
+ /*
+ * RCU protects us against accessing freed memory but
+ * we have to be careful not to get a reference when the
+ * reference count already dropped to 0 (ctx->dead test
+ * is unreliable because of races).
+ */
+ if (ctx->user_id == ctx_id && !ctx->dead && try_get_ioctx(ctx)){
ret = ctx;
break;
}