Re: [PATCH RFC v4 12/15] io_uring/cmd: let cmds to know about dying task

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 7:02 AM Bernd Schubert <bschubert@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11/5/24 02:08, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> > On 11/4/24 22:15, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> >> On 11/4/24 01:28, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> > ...
> >>> In general if you need to change something, either stick your
> >>> name, so that I know it might be a derivative, or reflect it in
> >>> the commit message, e.g.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: initial author
> >>> [Person 2: changed this and that]
> >>> Signed-off-by: person 2
> >>
> >> Oh sorry, for sure. I totally forgot to update the commit message.
> >>
> >> Somehow the initial version didn't trigger. I need to double check to
> >
> > "Didn't trigger" like in "kernel was still crashing"?
>
> My initial problem was a crash in iov_iter_get_pages2() on process
> kill. And when I tested your initial patch IO_URING_F_TASK_DEAD didn't
> get set. Jens then asked to test with the version that I have in my
> branch and that worked fine. Although in the mean time I wonder if
> I made test mistake (like just fuse.ko reload instead of reboot with
> new kernel). Just fixed a couple of issues in my branch (basically
> ready for the next version send), will test the initial patch
> again as first thing in the morning.
>
>
> >
> > FWIW, the original version is how it's handled in several places
> > across io_uring, and the difference is a gap for !DEFER_TASKRUN
> > when a task_work is queued somewhere in between when a task is
> > started going through exit() but haven't got PF_EXITING set yet.
> > IOW, should be harder to hit.
> >
>
> Does that mean that the test for PF_EXITING is racy and we cannot
> entirely rely on it?

Another solution is to mark uring_cmd as io_uring_cmd_mark_cancelable(),
which provides a chance to cancel cmd in the current context.

Thanks,






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