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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
parent29723fccc837d20039078f7a571e8d457eb0d6c6 (diff)
downloadlinux-3bd9a5d734c7cc7533b27abf451416c7f50095a7.tar.gz
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')
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c35
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index fc557a3be0a9..b4dd668fbccc 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;
 		}