On 4/22/19 10:32 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 4/22/19 10:27 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> [ Crossed emails ] >> >> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 9:23 AM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I think the below should fix this. Very early versions of io_uring didn't >>> have this issue, since we did the percpu ref tryget for io_uring_register(). >> >> Ok, so I like your patch better than mine, but note how syzbot >> bisected this to the initial merge of the io_uring code. > > Yes, I did think about that too... > >> I agree that code shouldn't have had this particular issue, but it >> looks like it does. >> >> Is there some way to race with io_ring_ctx_wait_and_kill(), which >> _also_ does that ref_kill() thing? I'm not seeing how that could >> happen, but maybe if the file ref counts get screwed up you have >> ->release() called early.. > > I just tried on the current code and it triggers easily, but that's > with that mutex patch in there. I agree it should not trigger before > that, unless something is wonky. I'll try and play around with it a bit > and see what is going on (or if I can trigger it at all with the mutex > change reverted). With the mutex change in, I can trigger it in a second or so. Just ran the reproducer with that change reverted, and I'm not seeing any badness. So I do wonder if the bisect results are accurate? I think the dying check should cover it, and then marked with fixing that mutex commit. -- Jens Axboe