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* [PATCH] userfaultfd: disable irqs when taking the waitqueue lock
@ 2018-10-18 15:41 Christoph Hellwig
  2018-10-18 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2018-10-18 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-mm

userfaultfd contains howe-grown locking of the waitqueue lock,
and does not disable interrupts.  This relies on the fact that
no one else takes it from interrupt context and violates an
invariat of the normal waitqueue locking scheme.  With aio poll
it is easy to trigger other locks that disable interrupts (or
are called from interrupt context).

Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 fs/userfaultfd.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index bfa0ec69f924..356d2b8568c1 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int no_wait,
 	struct userfaultfd_ctx *fork_nctx = NULL;
 
 	/* always take the fd_wqh lock before the fault_pending_wqh lock */
-	spin_lock(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
+	spin_lock_irq(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
 	__add_wait_queue(&ctx->fd_wqh, &wait);
 	for (;;) {
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
@@ -1112,13 +1112,13 @@ static ssize_t userfaultfd_ctx_read(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int no_wait,
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			break;
 		}
-		spin_unlock(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
 		schedule();
-		spin_lock(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
+		spin_lock_irq(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
 	}
 	__remove_wait_queue(&ctx->fd_wqh, &wait);
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-	spin_unlock(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->fd_wqh.lock);
 
 	if (!ret && msg->event == UFFD_EVENT_FORK) {
 		ret = resolve_userfault_fork(ctx, fork_nctx, msg);
-- 
2.19.1

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* Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd: disable irqs when taking the waitqueue lock
  2018-10-18 15:41 [PATCH] userfaultfd: disable irqs when taking the waitqueue lock Christoph Hellwig
@ 2018-10-18 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
  2018-10-19  6:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2018-10-18 22:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: linux-mm

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:41:01 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> userfaultfd contains howe-grown locking of the waitqueue lock,
> and does not disable interrupts.  This relies on the fact that
> no one else takes it from interrupt context and violates an
> invariat of the normal waitqueue locking scheme.  With aio poll
> it is easy to trigger other locks that disable interrupts (or
> are called from interrupt context).

So...  this is needed in 4.19.x but not earlier?  Or something else?

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* Re: [PATCH] userfaultfd: disable irqs when taking the waitqueue lock
  2018-10-18 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
@ 2018-10-19  6:30   ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2018-10-19  6:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Christoph Hellwig, linux-mm

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 03:56:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:41:01 +0200 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> 
> > userfaultfd contains howe-grown locking of the waitqueue lock,
> > and does not disable interrupts.  This relies on the fact that
> > no one else takes it from interrupt context and violates an
> > invariat of the normal waitqueue locking scheme.  With aio poll
> > it is easy to trigger other locks that disable interrupts (or
> > are called from interrupt context).
> 
> So...  this is needed in 4.19.x but not earlier?  Or something else?

Yes.

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