From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>,
io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] io_uring: fix hanging iopoll in case of -EAGAIN
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:18:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e05fc48b-684d-2980-3986-47a77af403e0@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95b720a6-926c-a208-e929-1d0203fa8701@kernel.dk>
On 6/22/20 8:07 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 6/22/20 4:16 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>> io_do_iopoll() won't do anything with a request unless
>> req->iopoll_completed is set. So io_complete_rw_iopoll() has to set
>> it, otherwise io_do_iopoll() will poll a file again and again even
>> though the request of interest was completed long ago.
>
> I need to look at this again, because with this change, I previously
> got various use-after-free. I haven't seen any issues with it, but
> I agree, from a quick look that I'm not quite sure how it's currently
> not causing hangs. Yet I haven't seen any, with targeted -EAGAIN
> testing.
Ah I think I know what it is - if we run into:
if (req->result == -EAGAIN)
return -EAGAIN
in io_issue_sqe() and race with it, we'll reissue twice potentially.
So the above isn't quite enough, we'll need something a bit broader.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-23 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-22 22:16 [PATCH 0/4] iopoll fixes + cleanups Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] io_uring: fix hanging iopoll in case of -EAGAIN Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-23 2:07 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-23 2:18 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-06-23 11:57 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-23 19:01 ` Jens Axboe
2020-06-24 16:56 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] io_uring: handle EAGAIN iopoll Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-30 4:01 ` kernel test robot
2020-06-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] io-wq: compact io-wq flags numbers Pavel Begunkov
2020-06-22 22:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] io-wq: return next work from ->do_work() directly Pavel Begunkov
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