aio: lookup_ioctx can return the wrong value when looking up a bogus context
authorJeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:04:21 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:57:18 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
The libaio test harness turned up a problem whereby lookup_ioctx on a
bogus io context was returning the 1 valid io context from the list
(harness/cases/3.p).

Because of that, an extra put_iocontext was done, and when the process
exited, it hit a BUG_ON in the put_iocontext macro called from exit_aio
(since we expect a users count of 1 and instead get 0).

The problem was introduced by "aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless"
(commit abf137dd7712132ee56d5b3143c2ff61a72a5faa).

Thanks to Zach for pointing out that hlist_for_each_entry_rcu will not
return with a NULL tpos at the end of the loop, even if the entry was
not found.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
fs/aio.c

index 4a9d4d641fb9daa39a8523c9659b6a4efcdee684..76da12537956cf0635c5615303f8cbb0fb8337a7 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ int aio_put_req(struct kiocb *req)
 static struct kioctx *lookup_ioctx(unsigned long ctx_id)
 {
        struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
-       struct kioctx *ctx = NULL;
+       struct kioctx *ctx, *ret = NULL;
        struct hlist_node *n;
 
        rcu_read_lock();
@@ -595,12 +595,13 @@ static struct kioctx *lookup_ioctx(unsigned long ctx_id)
        hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(ctx, n, &mm->ioctx_list, list) {
                if (ctx->user_id == ctx_id && !ctx->dead) {
                        get_ioctx(ctx);
+                       ret = ctx;
                        break;
                }
        }
 
        rcu_read_unlock();
-       return ctx;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 /*