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SubjectRe: [PATCH] io_uring: fix deferred req iovec leak
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On 06/02/2020 22:56, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2/6/20 10:16 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> On 06/02/2020 20:04, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> On 06/02/2020 19:51, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>> After defer, a request will be prepared, that includes allocating iovec
>>>> if needed, and then submitted through io_wq_submit_work() but not custom
>>>> handler (e.g. io_rw_async()/io_sendrecv_async()). However, it'll leak
>>>> iovec, as it's in io-wq and the code goes as follows:
>>>>
>>>> io_read() {
>>>> if (!io_wq_current_is_worker())
>>>> kfree(iovec);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Put all deallocation logic in io_{read,write,send,recv}(), which will
>>>> leave the memory, if going async with -EAGAIN.
>>>>
>>> Interestingly, this will fail badly if it returns -EAGAIN from io-wq context.
>>> Apparently, I need to do v2.
>>>
>> Or not...
>> Jens, can you please explain what's with the -EAGAIN handling in
>> io_wq_submit_work()? Checking the code, it seems neither of
>> read/write/recv/send can return -EAGAIN from async context (i.e.
>> force_nonblock=false). Are there other ops that can do it?
>
> Nobody should return -EAGAIN with force_nonblock=false, they should
> end the io_kiocb inline for that.
>

If so for those 4, then the patch should work well.

--
Pavel Begunkov

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