Re: [PATCH 5/9] block: Fix handling of tasks without ioprio in ioprio_get(2)

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On 6/21/22 19:24, Jan Kara wrote:
> ioprio_get(2) can be asked to return the best IO priority from several
> tasks (IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, IOPRIO_WHO_USER). Currently the call treats
> tasks without set IO priority as having priority
> IOPRIO_CLASS_BE/IOPRIO_BE_NORM however this does not really reflect the
> IO priority the task will get (which depends on task's nice value).
> 
> Fix the code to use the real IO priority task's IO will use. We have to
> modify code for ioprio_get(IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS) to keep returning
> IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE priority for tasks without set IO priority as a
> special case to maintain userspace visible API.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Looks OK to me.

Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  block/ioprio.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c
> index 8c46f672a0ba..32a456b45804 100644
> --- a/block/ioprio.c
> +++ b/block/ioprio.c
> @@ -171,10 +171,31 @@ static int get_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *p)
>  	ret = security_task_getioprio(p);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out;
> -	ret = IOPRIO_DEFAULT;
> +	task_lock(p);
> +	ret = __get_task_ioprio(p);
> +	task_unlock(p);
> +out:
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Return raw IO priority value as set by userspace. We use this for
> + * ioprio_get(pid, IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS) so that we keep historical behavior and
> + * also so that userspace can distinguish unset IO priority (which just gets
> + * overriden based on task's nice value) from IO priority set to some value.
> + */
> +static int get_task_raw_ioprio(struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = security_task_getioprio(p);
> +	if (ret)
> +		goto out;
>  	task_lock(p);
>  	if (p->io_context)
>  		ret = p->io_context->ioprio;
> +	else
> +		ret = IOPRIO_DEFAULT;
>  	task_unlock(p);
>  out:
>  	return ret;
> @@ -182,11 +203,6 @@ static int get_task_ioprio(struct task_struct *p)
>  
>  static int ioprio_best(unsigned short aprio, unsigned short bprio)
>  {
> -	if (!ioprio_valid(aprio))
> -		aprio = IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, IOPRIO_BE_NORM);
> -	if (!ioprio_valid(bprio))
> -		bprio = IOPRIO_PRIO_VALUE(IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, IOPRIO_BE_NORM);
> -
>  	return min(aprio, bprio);
>  }
>  
> @@ -207,7 +223,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(ioprio_get, int, which, int, who)
>  			else
>  				p = find_task_by_vpid(who);
>  			if (p)
> -				ret = get_task_ioprio(p);
> +				ret = get_task_raw_ioprio(p);
>  			break;
>  		case IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP:
>  			if (!who)


-- 
Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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