Re: [PATCH 4/4] io_uring/register: add IORING_REGISTER_RESIZE_RINGS

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 10:25 PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/24/24 2:08 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 9:59?PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 10/24/24 1:53 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 9:50?PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On 10/24/24 12:13 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 7:08?PM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>> Add IORING_REGISTER_RESIZE_RINGS, which allows an application to resize
> >>>>>> the existing rings. It takes a struct io_uring_params argument, the same
> >>>>>> one which is used to setup the ring initially, and resizes rings
> >>>>>> according to the sizes given.
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>>> +        * We'll do the swap. Clear out existing mappings to prevent mmap
> >>>>>> +        * from seeing them, as we'll unmap them. Any attempt to mmap existing
> >>>>>> +        * rings beyond this point will fail. Not that it could proceed at this
> >>>>>> +        * point anyway, as we'll hold the mmap_sem until we've done the swap.
> >>>>>> +        * Likewise, hold the completion * lock over the duration of the actual
> >>>>>> +        * swap.
> >>>>>> +        */
> >>>>>> +       mmap_write_lock(current->mm);
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Why does the mmap lock for current->mm suffice here? I see nothing in
> >>>>> io_uring_mmap() that limits mmap() to tasks with the same mm_struct.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ehm does ->mmap() not hold ->mmap_sem already? I was under that
> >>>> understanding. Obviously if it doesn't, then yeah this won't be enough.
> >>>> Checked, and it does.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ah I see what you mean now, task with different mm. But how would that
> >>>> come about? The io_uring fd is CLOEXEC, and it can't get passed.
> >>>
> >>> Yeah, that's what I meant, tasks with different mm. I think there are
> >>> a few ways to get the io_uring fd into a different task, the ones I
> >>> can immediately think of:
> >>>
> >>>  - O_CLOEXEC only applies on execve(), fork() should still inherit the fd
> >>>  - O_CLOEXEC can be cleared via fcntl()
> >>>  - you can use clone() to create two tasks that share FD tables
> >>> without sharing an mm
> >>
> >> OK good catch, yes then it won't be enough. Might just make sense to
> >> exclude mmap separately, then. Thanks, I'll work on that for v4!
> >
> > Yeah, that sounds reasonable to me.
>
> Something like this should do it, it's really just replacing mmap_sem
> with a ring private lock. And since the ordering already had to deal
> with uring_lock vs mmap_sem ABBA issues, this should slot straight in as
> well.

Looks good to me at a glance.





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