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Biederman" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Tetsuo Handa Subject: [PATCH] fput: Allow calling __fput_sync() from !PF_KTHREAD thread. Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 23:24:09 +0900 Message-Id: <20200708142409.8965-1-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.18.4 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org __fput_sync() was introduced by commit 4a9d4b024a3102fc ("switch fput to task_work_add") with BUG_ON(!(current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) check, and the only user of __fput_sync() was introduced by commit 17c0a5aaffa63da6 ("make acct_kill() wait for file closing."). However, the latter commit is effectively calling __fput_sync() from !PF_KTHREAD thread because of schedule_work() call followed by immediate wait_for_completion() call. That is, there is no need to defer close_work() to a WQ context. I guess that the reason to defer was nothing but to bypass this BUG_ON() check. While we need to remain careful about calling __fput_sync(), we can remove bypassable BUG_ON() check from __fput_sync(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa --- Al, is this change acceptable? Eric is trying to use fput()/flush_delayed_fput()/task_work_run() from blob_to_mnt() which is going to be introduced by https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702164140.4468-8-ebiederm@xmission.com in order to make sure that a file (which was opened for writing and is intended to be execve()d shortly) is closed by current thread before leaving blob_to_mnt(). But since current thread might fail to find the interested file (which was opened for writing and is intended to be execve()d shortly) and/or might find uninterested files (which current thread does not need to process) when multiple threads concurrently called flush_delayed_fput(), I think that we should use __fput_sync() in order to make sure that only the interested file is closed by current thread. Therefore, I propose this change. fs/file_table.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 656647f9575a..7c4125179469 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -359,20 +359,15 @@ void fput(struct file *file) } /* - * synchronous analog of fput(); for kernel threads that might be needed - * in some umount() (and thus can't use flush_delayed_fput() without - * risking deadlocks), need to wait for completion of __fput() and know - * for this specific struct file it won't involve anything that would - * need them. Use only if you really need it - at the very least, - * don't blindly convert fput() by kernel thread to that. + * synchronous analog of fput(); for threads that need to wait for completion + * of __fput() and know for this specific struct file it won't involve anything + * that would need them. Use only if you really need it - at the very least, + * don't blindly convert fput() to __fput_sync(). */ void __fput_sync(struct file *file) { - if (atomic_long_dec_and_test(&file->f_count)) { - struct task_struct *task = current; - BUG_ON(!(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)); + if (atomic_long_dec_and_test(&file->f_count)) __fput(file); - } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(fput); -- 2.18.4