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kill_ioctx() used to have an explicit RCU delay between removing the reference from ->ioctx_table and percpu_ref_kill() dropping the refcount. At some point that delay had been removed, on the theory that percpu_ref_kill() itself contained an RCU delay. Unfortunately, that was the wrong kind of RCU delay and it didn't care about rcu_read_lock() used by lookup_ioctx(). As the result, we could get ctx freed right under lookup_ioctx(). Tejun has fixed that ina6d7cff472("fs/aio: Add explicit RCU grace period when freeing kioctx"); however, that fix is not enough. Suppose io_destroy() from one thread races with e.g. io_setup() from another; CPU1 removes the reference from current->mm->ioctx_table[...] just as CPU2 has picked it (under rcu_read_lock()). Then CPU1 proceeds to drop the refcount, getting it to 0 and triggering a call of free_ioctx_users(), which proceeds to drop the secondary refcount and once that reaches zero calls free_ioctx_reqs(). That does INIT_RCU_WORK(&ctx->free_rwork, free_ioctx); queue_rcu_work(system_wq, &ctx->free_rwork); and schedules freeing the whole thing after RCU delay. In the meanwhile CPU2 has gotten around to percpu_ref_get(), bumping the refcount from 0 to 1 and returned the reference to io_setup(). Tejun's fix (that queue_rcu_work() in there) guarantees that ctx won't get freed until after percpu_ref_get(). Sure, we'd increment the counter before ctx can be freed. Now we are out of rcu_read_lock() and there's nothing to stop freeing of the whole thing. Unfortunately, CPU2 assumes that since it has grabbed the reference, ctx is *NOT* going away until it gets around to dropping that reference. The fix is obvious - use percpu_ref_tryget_live() and treat failure as miss. It's not costlier than what we currently do in normal case, it's safe to call since freeing *is* delayed and it closes the race window - either lookup_ioctx() comes before percpu_ref_kill() (in which case ctx->users won't reach 0 until the caller of lookup_ioctx() drops it) or lookup_ioctx() fails, ctx->users is unaffected and caller of lookup_ioctx() doesn't see the object in question at all. Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes:a6d7cff472"fs/aio: Add explicit RCU grace period when freeing kioctx" Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.