Re: [PATCH RESEND] fs/epoll: fix the edge-triggered mode for nested epoll

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Hi,

This is indeed a bug. (quick side note: could you please remove efd[1]
from your test, because it is not related to the reproduction of a
current bug).

Your patch lacks a good description, what exactly you've fixed.  Let
me speak out loud and please correct me if I'm wrong, my understanding
of epoll internals has become a bit rusty: when epoll fds are nested
an attempt to harvest events (ep_scan_ready_list() call) produces a
second (repeated) event from an internal fd up to an external fd:

     epoll_wait(efd[0], ...):
       ep_send_events():
          ep_scan_ready_list(depth=0):
            ep_send_events_proc():
                ep_item_poll():
                  ep_scan_ready_list(depth=1):
                    ep_poll_safewake():
                      ep_poll_callback()
                        list_add_tail(&epi, &epi->rdllist);
                        ^^^^^^
                        repeated event


In your patch you forbid wakeup for the cases, where depth != 0, i.e.
for all nested cases. That seems clear.  But what if we can go further
and remove the whole chunk, which seems excessive:

@@ -885,26 +886,11 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,

-
-       if (!list_empty(&ep->rdllist)) {
-               /*
-                * Wake up (if active) both the eventpoll wait list and
- * the ->poll() wait list (delayed after we release the lock).
-                */
-               if (waitqueue_active(&ep->wq))
-                       wake_up(&ep->wq);
-               if (waitqueue_active(&ep->poll_wait))
-                       pwake++;
-       }
        write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock);

        if (!ep_locked)
                mutex_unlock(&ep->mtx);

-       /* We have to call this outside the lock */
-       if (pwake)
-               ep_poll_safewake(&ep->poll_wait);


I reason like that: by the time we've reached the point of scanning events for readiness all wakeups from ep_poll_callback have been already fired and new events have been already accounted in ready list (ep_poll_callback() calls the same ep_poll_safewake()). Here, frankly, I'm not 100% sure and probably
missing some corner cases.

Thoughts?

PS. You call list_empty(&ep->rdllist) without ep->lock taken, that is fine, but you should be _careful_, so list_empty_careful(&ep->rdllist) call
     instead.

--
Roman



On 2019-09-02 07:20, hev wrote:
From: Heiher <r@xxxxxx>

The structure of event pools:
efd[1]: { efd[2] (EPOLLIN) } efd[0]: { efd[2] (EPOLLIN | EPOLLET) }
               |                                   |
               +-----------------+-----------------+
                                 |
                                 v
                             efd[2]: { sfd[0] (EPOLLIN) }

When sfd[0] to be readable:
* the epoll_wait(efd[0], ..., 0) should return efd[2]'s events on first call, and returns 0 on next calls, because efd[2] is added in edge-triggered mode. * the epoll_wait(efd[1], ..., 0) should returns efd[2]'s events on every calls until efd[2] is not readable (epoll_wait(efd[2], ...) => 0), because efd[1]
   is added in level-triggered mode.
* the epoll_wait(efd[2], ..., 0) should returns sfd[0]'s events on every calls until sfd[0] is not readable (read(sfd[0], ...) => EAGAIN), because sfd[0]
   is added in level-triggered mode.

Test code:
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/epoll.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>

 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	int sfd[2];
 	int efd[3];
 	int nfds;
 	struct epoll_event e;

 	if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sfd) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	efd[0] = epoll_create(1);
 	if (efd[0] < 0)
 		goto out;

 	efd[1] = epoll_create(1);
 	if (efd[1] < 0)
 		goto out;

 	efd[2] = epoll_create(1);
 	if (efd[2] < 0)
 		goto out;

 	e.events = EPOLLIN;
 	if (epoll_ctl(efd[2], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, sfd[0], &e) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	e.events = EPOLLIN;
 	if (epoll_ctl(efd[1], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd[2], &e) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	e.events = EPOLLIN | EPOLLET;
 	if (epoll_ctl(efd[0], EPOLL_CTL_ADD, efd[2], &e) < 0)
 		goto out;

 	if (write(sfd[1], "w", 1) != 1)
 		goto out;

 	nfds = epoll_wait(efd[0], &e, 1, 0);
 	if (nfds != 1)
 		goto out;

 	nfds = epoll_wait(efd[0], &e, 1, 0);
 	if (nfds != 0)
 		goto out;

 	nfds = epoll_wait(efd[1], &e, 1, 0);
 	if (nfds != 1)
 		goto out;

 	nfds = epoll_wait(efd[1], &e, 1, 0);
 	if (nfds != 1)
 		goto out;

 	nfds = epoll_wait(efd[2], &e, 1, 0);
 	if (nfds != 1)
 		goto out;

 	nfds = epoll_wait(efd[2], &e, 1, 0);
 	if (nfds != 1)
 		goto out;

 	close(efd[2]);
 	close(efd[1]);
 	close(efd[0]);
 	close(sfd[0]);
 	close(sfd[1]);

 	printf("PASS\n");
 	return 0;

 out:
 	printf("FAIL\n");
 	return -1;
 }

Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: hev <r@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index d7f1f5011fac..a44cb27c636c 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -672,6 +672,7 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 {
 	__poll_t res;
 	int pwake = 0;
+	int nwake = 0;
 	struct epitem *epi, *nepi;
 	LIST_HEAD(txlist);

@@ -685,6 +686,9 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 	if (!ep_locked)
 		mutex_lock_nested(&ep->mtx, depth);

+	if (!depth || list_empty(&ep->rdllist))
+		nwake = 1;
+
 	/*
 	 * Steal the ready list, and re-init the original one to the
 	 * empty list. Also, set ep->ovflist to NULL so that events
@@ -739,7 +743,7 @@ static __poll_t ep_scan_ready_list(struct eventpoll *ep,
 	list_splice(&txlist, &ep->rdllist);
 	__pm_relax(ep->ws);

-	if (!list_empty(&ep->rdllist)) {
+	if (nwake && !list_empty(&ep->rdllist)) {
 		/*
 		 * Wake up (if active) both the eventpoll wait list and
 		 * the ->poll() wait list (delayed after we release the lock).




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