The patch titled aio: io_getevents() should return if io_destroy() is invoked has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is aio-io_getevents-should-return-if-io_destroy-is-invoked.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: aio: io_getevents() should return if io_destroy() is invoked From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch wakes up a thread waiting in io_getevents if another thread destroys the context. This was tested using a small program that spawns a thread to wait in io_getevents while the parent thread destroys the io context and then waits for the getevents thread to exit. Without this patch, the program hangs indefinitely. With the patch, the program exits as expected. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/aio.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/aio.c~aio-io_getevents-should-return-if-io_destroy-is-invoked fs/aio.c --- a/fs/aio.c~aio-io_getevents-should-return-if-io_destroy-is-invoked +++ a/fs/aio.c @@ -1177,7 +1177,10 @@ retry: break; if (min_nr <= i) break; - ret = 0; + if (unlikely(ctx->dead)) { + ret = -EINVAL; + break; + } if (to.timed_out) /* Only check after read evt */ break; /* Try to only show up in io wait if there are ops @@ -1242,6 +1245,13 @@ static void io_destroy(struct kioctx *io aio_cancel_all(ioctx); wait_for_all_aios(ioctx); + + /* + * Wake up any waiters. The setting of ctx->dead must be seen + * by other CPUs at this point. Right now, we rely on the + * locking done by the above calls to ensure this consistency. + */ + wake_up(&ioctx->wait); put_ioctx(ioctx); /* once for the lookup */ } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx are aio-io_getevents-should-return-if-io_destroy-is-invoked.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html