When doing aio ring page migration, we migrated the page, and update ctx->ring_pages[]. Like the following: aio_migratepage() |-> migrate_page_copy(new, old) | ...... /* Need barrier here */ |-> ctx->ring_pages[idx] = new Actually, we need a memory barrier between these two operations. Otherwise, if ctx->ring_pages[] is updated before memory copy due to the compiler optimization, other processes may have an opportunity to access to the not fully initialized new ring page. So add a wmb to synchronize them. Reported-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c index 50c089c..f0ed838 100644 --- a/fs/aio.c +++ b/fs/aio.c @@ -327,6 +327,14 @@ static int aio_migratepage(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *new, pgoff_t idx; spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->completion_lock, flags); migrate_page_copy(new, old); + + /* + * Ensure memory copy is finished before updating + * ctx->ring_pages[]. Otherwise other processes may access to + * new ring pages which are not fully initialized. + */ + smp_wmb(); + idx = old->index; if (idx < (pgoff_t)ctx->nr_pages) { /* And only do the move if things haven't changed */ -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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