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SubjectRe: [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.

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