Re: [PATCH 2/8] io_uring: fix commit_cqring() locking in iopoll

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On 6/30/20 9:00 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 30/06/2020 17:46, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 6/30/20 8:36 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> On 30/06/2020 17:04, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On 6/30/20 6:20 AM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>>>> Don't call io_commit_cqring() without holding the completion spinlock
>>>>> in io_iopoll_complete(), it can race, e.g. with async request failing.
>>>>
>>>> Can you be more specific?
>>>
>>> io_iopoll_complete()
>>> 	-> io_req_free_batch()
>>> 		-> io_queue_next()
>>> 			-> io_req_task_queue()
>>> 				-> task_work_add()
>>>
>>> if this task_work_add() fails, it will be redirected to io-wq manager task
>>> to do io_req_task_cancel() -> commit_cqring().
>>>
>>>
>>> And probably something similar will happen if a request currently in io-wq
>>> is retried with
>>> io_rw_should_retry() -> io_async_buf_func() -> task_work_add()
>>
>> For the IOPOLL setup, it should be protected by the ring mutex. Adding
>> the irq disable + lock for polling would be a nasty performance hit.
> 
> Ok. For what it worth, it would be easier to accidentally screw in the future.
> I'll try it out.
> 
> 
> BTW, if you're going to cherry-pick patches from this series, just push them
> into the branch. I'll check git.kernel.dk later and resend what's left.

Yep done, I'll push it out.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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