Nick Piggin reports: > I'm getting use after frees in aio code in NFS > > [ 2703.396766] Call Trace: > [ 2703.396858] [<ffffffff8100b057>] ? native_sched_clock+0x27/0x80 > [ 2703.396959] [<ffffffff8108509e>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x40 > [ 2703.397058] [<ffffffff81088348>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0xa8/0x140 > [ 2703.397159] [<ffffffff8108a2a5>] lock_acquire+0x95/0x1b0 > [ 2703.397260] [<ffffffff811627db>] ? aio_put_req+0x2b/0x60 > [ 2703.397361] [<ffffffff81039701>] ? get_parent_ip+0x11/0x50 > [ 2703.397464] [<ffffffff81612a31>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x80 > [ 2703.397564] [<ffffffff811627db>] ? aio_put_req+0x2b/0x60 > [ 2703.397662] [<ffffffff811627db>] aio_put_req+0x2b/0x60 > [ 2703.397761] [<ffffffff811647fe>] do_io_submit+0x2be/0x7c0 > [ 2703.397895] [<ffffffff81164d0b>] sys_io_submit+0xb/0x10 > [ 2703.397995] [<ffffffff8100307b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > Adding some tracing, it is due to nfs completing the request then > returning something other than -EIOCBQUEUED, so aio.c > also completes the request. To address this, prevent the NFS direct I/O engine from completing async iocbs when the forward path returns an error other than EIOCBQUEUED. This appears to survive ^C during both "xfstest no. 208" and "fsx -Z." Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Here's my take. fs/nfs/direct.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c index e6ace0d..c2176f4 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/direct.c +++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c @@ -407,15 +407,16 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_read_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq, pos += vec->iov_len; } - if (put_dreq(dreq)) - nfs_direct_complete(dreq); - - if (requested_bytes != 0) - return 0; + /* + * If no bytes were started, return the error, and let the + * generic layer handle the completion. + */ + if (requested_bytes == 0) + return result < 0 ? result : -EIO; - if (result < 0) - return result; - return -EIO; + if (put_dreq(dreq)) + nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq, dreq->inode); + return 0; } static ssize_t nfs_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, @@ -841,15 +842,16 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write_schedule_iovec(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq, pos += vec->iov_len; } + /* + * If no bytes were started, return the error, and let the + * generic layer handle the completion. + */ + if (requested_bytes == 0) + return result < 0 ? result : -EIO; + if (put_dreq(dreq)) nfs_direct_write_complete(dreq, dreq->inode); - - if (requested_bytes != 0) - return 0; - - if (result < 0) - return result; - return -EIO; + return 0; } static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html