On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:08:28PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:57:08AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running latest -next 
> > kernel,
> > I've stumbled on the following spew caused by a new BUG() added in "aio: fix
> > io_destroy() regression by using call_rcu()".
> 
> I did some investigating, and it looks like there is a problem with 
> db446a08c23d5475e6b08c87acca79ebb20f283c (aio: convert the ioctx list to 
> table lookup v3).  Can you confirm if reverting this patch eliminates 
> the BUG() you're hitting?  In my testing, I wasn't able to trigger the 
> BUG(), but I was able to trip up slab corruption with debugging on.  

And here is a patch that should fix the problems introduced in the table 
lookup patch without reverting.  I will add this to the aio-next.git tree.  
This bug is not present in Linus' tree.

                -ben

 aio.c |   17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 588aff9..3bc068c 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static int ioctx_add_table(struct kioctx *ctx, struct 
mm_struct *mm)
        struct aio_ring *ring;
 
        spin_lock(&mm->ioctx_lock);
-       table = rcu_dereference(mm->ioctx_table);
+       table = mm->ioctx_table;
 
        while (1) {
                if (table)
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ static int ioctx_add_table(struct kioctx *ctx, struct 
mm_struct *mm)
                table->nr = new_nr;
 
                spin_lock(&mm->ioctx_lock);
-               old = rcu_dereference(mm->ioctx_table);
+               old = mm->ioctx_table;
 
                if (!old) {
                        rcu_assign_pointer(mm->ioctx_table, table);
@@ -579,10 +579,6 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
        if (ctx->req_batch < 1)
                ctx->req_batch = 1;
 
-       err = ioctx_add_table(ctx, mm);
-       if (err)
-               goto out_cleanup_noerr;
-
        /* limit the number of system wide aios */
        spin_lock(&aio_nr_lock);
        if (aio_nr + nr_events > (aio_max_nr * 2UL) ||
@@ -595,13 +591,18 @@ static struct kioctx *ioctx_alloc(unsigned nr_events)
 
        percpu_ref_get(&ctx->users); /* io_setup() will drop this ref */
 
+       err = ioctx_add_table(ctx, mm);
+       if (err)
+               goto out_cleanup_put;
+
        pr_debug("allocated ioctx %p[%ld]: mm=%p mask=0x%x\n",
                 ctx, ctx->user_id, mm, ctx->nr_events);
        return ctx;
 
+out_cleanup_put:
+       percpu_ref_put(&ctx->users);
 out_cleanup:
        err = -EAGAIN;
-out_cleanup_noerr:
        aio_free_ring(ctx);
 out_freepcpu:
        free_percpu(ctx->cpu);
@@ -626,7 +627,7 @@ static void kill_ioctx(struct mm_struct *mm, struct kioctx 
*ctx)
                struct kioctx_table *table;
 
                spin_lock(&mm->ioctx_lock);
-               table = rcu_dereference(mm->ioctx_table);
+               table = mm->ioctx_table;
 
                WARN_ON(ctx != table->table[ctx->id]);
                table->table[ctx->id] = NULL;
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