Re: [PATCH 1/5] radix-tree: Fix race in gang lookup

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On 2016/1/28 5:17, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If the indirect_ptr bit is set on a slot, that indicates we need to
> redo the lookup.  Introduce a new function radix_tree_iter_retry()
> which forces the loop to retry the lookup by setting 'slot' to NULL and
> turning the iterator back to point at the problematic entry.
>
> This is a pretty rare problem to hit at the moment; the lookup has to
> race with a grow of the radix tree from a height of 0.  The consequences
> of hitting this race are that gang lookup could return a pointer to a
> radix_tree_node instead of a pointer to whatever the user had inserted
> in the tree.
>
> Fixes: cebbd29e1c2f ("radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator")
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  include/linux/radix-tree.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  lib/radix-tree.c           | 12 ++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/radix-tree.h b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> index f9a3da5bf892..db0ed595749b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> +++ b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> @@ -387,6 +387,22 @@ void **radix_tree_next_chunk(struct radix_tree_root *root,
>  			     struct radix_tree_iter *iter, unsigned flags);
>  
>  /**
> + * radix_tree_iter_retry - retry this chunk of the iteration
> + * @iter:	iterator state
> + *
> + * If we iterate over a tree protected only by the RCU lock, a race
> + * against deletion or creation may result in seeing a slot for which
> + * radix_tree_deref_retry() returns true.  If so, call this function
> + * and continue the iteration.
> + */
> +static inline __must_check
> +void **radix_tree_iter_retry(struct radix_tree_iter *iter)
> +{
> +	iter->next_index = iter->index;
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +/**
>   * radix_tree_chunk_size - get current chunk size
>   *
>   * @iter:	pointer to radix tree iterator
> diff --git a/lib/radix-tree.c b/lib/radix-tree.c
> index a25f635dcc56..65422ac17114 100644
> --- a/lib/radix-tree.c
> +++ b/lib/radix-tree.c
> @@ -1105,9 +1105,13 @@ radix_tree_gang_lookup(struct radix_tree_root *root, void **results,
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	radix_tree_for_each_slot(slot, root, &iter, first_index) {
> -		results[ret] = indirect_to_ptr(rcu_dereference_raw(*slot));
> +		results[ret] = rcu_dereference_raw(*slot);
>  		if (!results[ret])
>  			continue;
> +		if (radix_tree_is_indirect_ptr(results[ret])) {
> +			slot = radix_tree_iter_retry(&iter);
> +			continue;
> +		}
>  		if (++ret == max_items)
>  			break;
>  	}
according to your patch, after  A race occur,  slot equals to null.  radix_tree_next_slot() will continue
to work. Therefore, it will not return the problematic entry. 
> @@ -1184,9 +1188,13 @@ radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag(struct radix_tree_root *root, void **results,
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	radix_tree_for_each_tagged(slot, root, &iter, first_index, tag) {
> -		results[ret] = indirect_to_ptr(rcu_dereference_raw(*slot));
> +		results[ret] = rcu_dereference_raw(*slot);
>  		if (!results[ret])
>  			continue;
> +		if (radix_tree_is_indirect_ptr(results[ret])) {
> +			slot = radix_tree_iter_retry(&iter);
> +			continue;
> +		}
>  		if (++ret == max_items)
>  			break;
>  	}


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