hi,
On 6/11/20 3:25 AM, Xiaoguang Wang wrote:While testing io_uring in arm, we found sometimes io_sq_thread() keeps polling io requests even though there are not inflight io requests in block layer. After some investigations, found a possible race about io_kiocb.flags, see below race codes: 1) in the end of io_write() or io_read() req->flags &= ~REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP; kfree(iovec); return ret; 2) in io_complete_rw_iopoll() if (res != -EAGAIN) req->flags |= REQ_F_IOPOLL_COMPLETED; In IOPOLL mode, io requests still maybe completed by interrupt, then above codes are not safe, concurrent modifications to req->flags, which is not protected by lock or is not atomic modifications. I also had disassemble io_complete_rw_iopoll() in arm: req->flags |= REQ_F_IOPOLL_COMPLETED; 0xffff000008387b18 <+76>: ldr w0, [x19,#104] 0xffff000008387b1c <+80>: orr w0, w0, #0x1000 0xffff000008387b20 <+84>: str w0, [x19,#104] Seems that the "req->flags |= REQ_F_IOPOLL_COMPLETED;" is load and modification, two instructions, which obviously is not atomic. To fix this issue, add a new iopoll_completed in io_kiocb to indicate whether io request is completed.Long term, I want to ensure that IOPOLL irq completions are illegal, it should not be enabled (or possible) if the driver doesn't do pure polled completions.
Yes, agree.
Short term, I think your fix is fine, but should be turned into using READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for the reading/setting of ->iopoll_completed. Can you resend it with that?
OK, I'll prepare one now. Regards, Xiaoguang Wang
